ACEN RES Signs Up First Customer for Retail Aggregation Program

ACEN RES, the retail electricity unit of the Ayala group, signed up five facilities in all three campuses of the Philippine Cultural College (PCC) under the Retail Aggregation Program (RAP), making the premier Chinese-Filipino school its first customer to participate in the said government initiative.

​RAP is part of the government’s customer choice programs that provide customers the freedom to choose their electricity supplier and the option to switch to renewable energy sources. Through the RAP, multiple electricity consumers can aggregate their energy demand to breach the 500-kilowatt threshold needed to be able to source power directly from their preferred supplier. PCC’s five facilities have nearly 1 MW of total power demand.

Tony Valdez, SVP for market transformation at ACEN, said: “This partnership with Philippine Cultural College demonstrates ACEN RES’s commitment to making renewable energy accessible to more businesses and institutions across the country. Through programs like the RAP, we’re empowering customers with the power of choice and giving them greater control over their electricity usage. We fully support the government’s initiatives to promote competition and provide more options for electricity consumers.”

Willie H. Go, director of the Board of Trustees at Philippine Cultural College, said: "Philippine Cultural College is deeply committed to sustainability, and our partnership with ACEN RES is a significant step towards achieving our environmental goals. By utilizing renewable energy through the RAP, we're not only reducing our carbon footprint but also ensuring a more sustainable future for our students. This initiative allows us to optimize our electricity costs, freeing up resources that can be further invested in providing quality education. We thank ACEN RES for their expertise and support. We look forward to our smooth transition to the retail aggregation program.”

Established on June 27, 1923, Philippine Cultural College (formerly Philippine Cultural High School) is the first and the oldest Chinese Filipino secondary school in the country. It is a non-stock, non-profit, and non-sectarian co-educational education institution offering pre-school, and PAASCU-accredited grade school and high school programs that emphasize the teaching of English, Filipino and Mandarin, and Mathematics, Science and Information Technology. In S.Y. 2008-2009, it started offering college education.

Philippine Cultural College maintains three campuses in Manila, Quezon City, and Caloocan City. The Manila campus 6-story building is situated at 1253 Jose Abad Santos Street in Tondo, Manila. The Caloocan campus, on the other hand, is situated at 175 8th Avenue Extension, Grace Park, Caloocan City, while the one in Quezon City is located at Cuenco Street corner D. Tuazon Street. The school provides facilities such as libraries, instructional media center, internet laboratory, computer laboratories, speech laboratory, science room, physics laboratory, chemistry laboratory, biology laboratory, multi-media room, audio-visual room, auditorium, basketball gymnasium and other sports facilities.

ACEN RES is the retail electricity unit of ACEN, the Ayala group’s listed energy platform at the forefront of the energy transition, with a rapidly growing presence across the Philippines, Australia, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR and the USA. The company currently has 6.8 GW of attributable renewable energy capacity spanning operational, under-construction, and committed projects.

As a pioneer in advancing the shift to sustainable energy, ACEN is dedicated to delivering clean, reliable, and affordable power across the Asia Pacific region. With an ambitious target to scale its renewable energy capacity to 20 GW by 2030, the company is on track to achieve 100% renewable energy generation by 2025 and reach Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, driving a carbon-neutral future and supporting the global energy transition.