Department of Energy(DOE)

February 10, 2022 Dear Sean Gyen Medrano, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jan 28, 2022 12:51:34 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Average Seawater Temperature and Solar Radiation at Cabangan, Zambales. Response to Request For Item No. 1. Please be informed that the DOE has no detailed data on monthly/ daily/hourly/yearly average solar radiation of Cabangan, Zambales. Nevertheless, the country’s annual/monthly average data on solar radiation (direct normal irradiance and tilted irradiation) are among the renewable energy resources information contained in the “Philippine Geospatial Toolkit”, an open-source map-based software application which is accessible/downloadable at: http://www.nrel.gov/international/ra_philippines.html. Other related open-source web-based platforms include the following: www.nrel.gov/gis/data_international.html www.nrel.gov/gis/mapsearch/ en.openei.org https://www.irena.org/globalatlas/ https://globalsolaratlas.info/mapc=15.158946,120.055463,11&r=PHL:PHL.78_1&s=15.158946,120.055463&m=site Kindly note that there is a PAGASA Synoptic Weather Station in Iba, Zambales where detailed weather data and information can be obtained. For Item No. 2. We have attached the Average Seawater temperature for your reference. If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi at email address [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Renewable Energy Management Bureau FOI Receiving Officer