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COP28: Eric Francia brings ACEN’s Energy Transition journey on the main stage

At the #COP28 Presidency main event, ACEN CEO Eric Francia emphasized the need to accelerate the retirement of coal plants and to deliver this in a just and responsible manner.
“The Energy Transition Mechanism can be done in a market-based, driven by the private sector – so that we can move faster,” he said.

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COP28 Leadership Interviews: ACEN’s energy transition journey

ACEN is the renewable energy platform of the Ayala group. In 2019, Ayala acquired a listed energy platform and thereafter infused its Philippine renewable operating assets and development pipeline. The combination resulted in 532MW of generation portfolio in the Philippines, consisting of a 246MW Coal fired power plants (CFPP), 134MW of various diesel plants, and 152MW…

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COP28: ACEN CEO Eric Francia joins panel on Coal Managed Phaseout

ACEN president and CEO Eric Francia joined an esteemed panel at the COP28 Singapore Pavilion in Dubai on December 4, 2023 to discuss Coal Managed Phaseout Package, where he underscored the importance of a responsible and just coal-to-clean transition that ensures affected stakeholders like workers and communities are taken into account in the pivot to renewables. Watch the full panel discussion.

Market Edge

ACEN CEO on ANC’s Market Edge with Mimi Ong

Our president and CEO Eric Francia shared his insights on the Philippines’ clean energy outlook on ANC’s Market Edge with Mimi Ong, where he also explained ACEN’s core strategies for expansion to accelerate the #EnergyTransition. “It will take decades before we [Philippines] can transition completely or substantively to clean energy. It’s not going to happen…

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Eric Francia on ANC’s Insight with April Lee Tan

Sharing his insights on the Philippine renewable energy market on ANC, our president and CEO, Eric Francia, lauded the Department of Energy for its tangible plans to drive the country’s shift to renewables, citing the green energy auction and its new policy to allow 100% foreign ownership for renewable energy projects. “It sends a strong signal…

Sustainable Leaders

Eric Francia on FinanceAsia Sustainable Leaders series

At Ayala, our companies work together to champion sustainability as we transition to an ESG-driven business. In a new FinanceAsia video series, our president and CEO Eric Francia joined Ayala Corporation CFO Albert De Larrazabal and BPI president and CEO TG Limcaoco to explain how ACEN and BPI collaborated and latched on to the concept…

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Eric Francia joins Southeast Asia’s biggest innovators in Bloomberg

Our president and CEO, Eric Francia, joined some of the region’s biggest innovators for an interview with Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin to discuss Southeast Asia’s daunting roadmap to Net Zero amid a worldwide energy crisis. He said that Net Zero commitments from governments across the region are critical to establish forcing mechanisms and create specific policies to…

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Humanising Energy | The race to replace coal

Facing the immediate impacts of climate change, there is an urgent need to transition to renewable energy. Our aim is to help the world transform to a more sustainable future where the next generation can flourish. In this film from the new series #HumanisingEnergy presented by World Energy Council and produced for us by BBC…

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