Geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) bagged Anvil awards for its three entries in the recently concluded 48th Anvil Awards. EDC won an Anvil Award of Excellence for its coffeetable book Rafflesia of the Philippines: A Story of Adventure, Appetite, and Affinity. The book was cited for effectively engaging both scientists and laymen with its comprehensive taxonomic information on the 10 Philippine species of the largest single flower in the world, seamlessly fusing scientific data and literary drama, and earning rave review from the scientific and literary communities. EDC also received two Anvil Awards of Merit for its Integrated Annual and Sustainability Report entitled Higher Peaks, New Horizons and its CSR project for the youth called College Admission Review and Readiness (CAREERS). Higher Peaks, New Horizons was cited for exemplary sustainability reporting. CAREERS won for its sustained financial assistance, academic guidance and post-graduation job placement aid that will ensure a bright future for its scholars. Receiving the awards from left to right are Fernando Diaz de Rivera, Mabi David, Toni Nieva, Marsha Anave, Frances Ariola, and Jun Anave.
The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is a pioneer in generating 100% clean, renewable, and reliable power as an electricity supplier in the Philippines for over 40 years. With power plants all over Visayas and Mindanao, the company is one of the biggest producers of geothermal energy in Asia and is expanding its reach in the international market, allowing it to offer customers affordable energy rates. EDC also strives to provide the best customer service it can to all its clients by having helpful salespeople and easy to understand contracts. Because of all of this, it is poised to become the premier supplier of electricity for the Philippines’ Green Energy Option Program. EDC takes its mission as a renewable energy provider seriously and goes beyond sustainability by investing in programs that enhance the environment and empower its partner communities, thereby fostering regenerative development. The company has also been working toward being carbon-neutral by improving its energy efficiency, as well as implementing various greening projects to ensure that its mission to provide future generations with a better life remains intact.
