Last Eid al-Adha holiday, the moment where Muslims remember and celebrate the time when Abraham sacrificed his son Isaac to God, my family and I decided to visit the Pililla Wind Farm for our family time. It is an unplanned tour to Pililla, Rizal because we decided to go just night before the holiday. Here are some exciting reasons why you should visit the 52 MW Pililla Wind Farm
1. Gigantic and stunning Wind Turbines
If you are an electrical people, I am pretty sure you will love to be in this place. When I was in college I never saw wind turbines before, I just imagine it as small rotating blades, until I saw it first in real, and all I can say is “wooow!” There are 27 wind turbines standing in Rizal and each turbine generates 2MW. Thus, the Rizal wind farm produces 54 MW of electricity. The Rizal Wind Farm is estimated to be able to generate 150 Gigawatt hours (GWh) and an average household in metro manila consumes 200 to 300kWh monthly which means this Wind Farm can power around 66, 000 household continuously. Those rotating blades are powerful.
3. You are saving mother earth by supporting and promoting clean energy.
Some of us have heart for our environment and some even spent their long weekend planting trees just to save our dying rainforest. Promoting clean energy, such as Wind energy, is saving our planet for global warming. Did you know that 42 % of country power source is from coal power plants which contribute large amount of carbon dioxide to our atmosphere? An average car produces 271 grams of CO2 per kilometer, while cyclist generates about 21 grams. In a month, just one 2MW turbine can mitigate the same amount of harmful greenhouse gas as someone who biked 12 million kilometers. It’s like biking the whole length of EDSA half a million times. If you are a clean energy advocate you might be here many times.
3. It is a tourist hotspots in Rizal.
While my family and I were driving going to Pililla I said to them there were fewer visitors today because it is raining, of course, most of families will prefer to stay at home and rest with that kind of weather, to my surprise there are still a lot of vehicles in the parking area. The entrance fee is free and the parking fee is just voluntary donation. There are also souvenirs you can buy there. My nephew bought a mini wind turbine made of wood.
4. It is just a few kilometers from Manila.
If you are staying in Manila and you want to relax and chill, this is a good place to go. You can invite your friends or your family to join with you. The Wind Farm we visited is located at Brgy. Halayhayin, Pililla, Rizal. Pililla got its name from Pila, a neighboring town in Laguna, which means “kampana or kampanilya”. There are more tourist destinations you can side trip in Rizal such as Hinulugang Taktak, Bahay na Bato, Mt. Sembrano and Pililla Catholic Church, they are the commonly visited places in Rizal.
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