SM Supermalls’ solar panel project helps both customers and communities nationwide

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With over 200,000 solar panels installed across 59 mall properties, SM Supermalls has practiced energy efficiency that serves its tenants and shoppers – a need amid the crisis

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Amid the current energy state of emergency and as demand for electricity rises during the summer months, SM Supermalls reinforces its energy efficiency practices to serve its customers and surrounding communities undisrupted, on top of sustaining its operations.

EFFICIENT PRACTICES. A view of SM City Taytay’s solar panels, promoting energy sustainability

SERVING COMMUNITIES. SM City Santa Rosa is included in the mall properties with installed solar panels

SM Group operates the country’s largest rooftop solar panel network nationwide among property developers. Its investment in renewable energy started in 2014 with the very first installation of solar panels in SM North EDSA – long before government mandates on sustainability and the current pressures on alternative sources of power amid the energy crisis. With over 200,000 panels installed across 59 mall properties, covering 65 hectares, this expansive system powers SM’s most-loved malls through a hybrid energy strategy, helping them run more efficiently and sustainably.

MASSIVE EFFORTS. SM Group’s efforts in building efficient energy can also be seen in the solar panels installed in SM Baliwag

Impact to communities

Collectively, these panels generate 106 Megawatt-peak of solar power, meeting over 50% of the mall operator’s electricity needs and helping ensure stable operations – from lighting to elevators. By integrating solar energy, SM reduces costs, improves efficiency, and delivers a more reliable, comfortable experience for tenants and shoppers.

This hybrid energy strategy, paired with its adjusted mall operating hours reduces SM’s reliance on the national grid, helping ease pressure on the overall energy supply and free up capacity for households, schools, hospitals, offices, and essential services, in its surrounding communities particularly during peak hours. 

ENERGY STRATEGY. SM City Cebu, like the other mall properties under SM Supermalls, reduces costs and improves efficiency through solar panels

BIG GOALS. A view of SM City Davao, one of the properties part of SM Supermalls’ transformative sustainability goal that also offers valuable customer experience

SM’s reinforced energy efficiency thrust amid the energy crisis is its latest effort in pursuit of transformative sustainability, action that results in impactful, tangible value to customers and its surrounding communities. – Rappler.com