Once the 150-megawatt solar power plant in Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu gets fully operational, it is expected to reduce electric power rates in the Province of Cebu, and invite more investors.

A groundbreaking and capsule-laying ceremony was held formally morning on March 16, 2025 for the mounting of a 150-megawatt solar power plant in Barangay Talisay.

Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, Daanbantayan Mayor Sun Shimura, and officials of a Spanish company set to erect the solar power plant under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) graced the ceremony.

The Daanbantayan solar power plant with a 176-megawatt peak is expected to generate about 280 gigawatt-hour of clean energy annually, or an equivalent electricity consumption of about 300,000 persons.

Once the solar power plant gets operational by end of 2026, it is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions at 259,000 tons yearly, according to Jose Manuel Entrecanales, president of Acciona Energia Global, and Ignacio Domecq Carrion, director of Acciona Southeast Asia.

The Spanish company assured local government units that the solar power plant will be constructed to withstand strong typhoons expected to hit northern Cebu.

Garcia is optimistic about reduction of power rates in the province through electricity generated by the said power plant, and that the solar power plant will entice more entities to pour investments in the Province of Cebu. 

Meanwhile, landowners settled lot purchase by the provincial government for the said project at P130 per square meter, instead of the P350 per square meter they expected.

The landowners cited they would rather sell their lots at said offer than be embroiled in a legal battle they could not win.