Environmental Initiatives

Environmental sustainability involves conserving our natural resources and protecting the environment to preserve it for future generations.

Our environmental sustainability efforts focus on meeting current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet greater demands. Through our environmental initiatives, such as tree planting, coastal cleanups, and biodiversity conservation, we can make the “Better World” we hope for a reality.

AboitizPower is one of the largest renewable energy providers in the Philippines. We have taken steps to ensure that our footprint and impact are managed responsibly, driving our pursuit of sustainability and conservation. Read more about AboitizPower’s full Environmental Policy.

The company complies with various environmental laws in the Philippines, such as the Presidential Decree 1586: Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), Republic Act No. 9275 - Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004, Republic Act No. 8749 - Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999, Republic Act No. 6969 - Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990, Republic Act No. 9003 - Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, DAO 2014 - 02: Revised Guidelines for Pollution Control Officer Accreditation, among other relevant environmental requirements.

Our Operationally Controlled subsidiaries hold ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System certifications as part of our efforts to maintain environmental sustainability within our communities.

The company incurred no significant sanctions or fines¹ related to environmental or ecological issues in 2025.

AboitizPower's Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports are submitted to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) - Environmental Impact Assessment and Management Division (EIAMD).

All EIAs for the Company’s projects are accessible through the DENR's Compliance Monitoring System (CMR) Online and may also be obtained from the DENR - Environmental Management Bureau upon request. This ensures transparency and stakeholder access to information on environmental impacts, mitigation measures, and compliance commitments.

1. Significant fines are those that exceed 10,000 USD

[GRI 103] AboitizPower’s energy management approach centers on delivering reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable energy solutions while optimizing operational efficiency and minimizing environmental impact. This is evident in the company’s efforts to increasing its renewable energy capacity to continue providing reliable, responsible, and reasonably priced energy to our customers.

[GRI 303] At AboitizPower, we monitor our water footprint and maximize efforts to conserve and recycle water. We help preserve water cycles in our communities through watershed management programs and the rehabilitation of our rivers and esteros (creeks).

AboitizPower’s hydropower facilities comprise 17.7% of our energy capacity portfolio, with 29 plant facilities nationwide. Water supply is critical and requires long-term risk management plans to ensure its viability for the future. This is why we regularly review and assess the applicability of our performance monitoring across our operations. The company also treats seawater efficiently and maintains environmentally sustainable operations without competing with the community for groundwater resources.

Our Water Management Framework guides our operations to effectively utilize water resources and minimize adverse effects on the environment and communities. This includes the following:

1. Development of a Water Management Plan, which follows five strategic points:
   1. Eliminate: Implementing practices that eliminate water dependency.
   2. Reduce: Using less water-intensive practices or lower freshwater demand.
      
   3. Alternative Source: Using non-freshwater sources suitable for other activities (i.e., rainwater harvesting/storm drain recovery).
   4. Reuse/Recover
      1. Reuse: Processed water is reused as lower-quality water for another process before being treated and discharged.
      2. Recover: Processed water is recovered, treated, and reused in the same process (a closed-loop system).
2. Water-related community risks and opportunities are managed through site-level community relations programs. Business Units have developed relevant water partnerships and initiatives, including short-, medium-, and long-term projects such as waterbody adoption, river and coastal clean-ups, equipment donations, and similar activities, where deemed material. 
   
3. Competency development is provided to our team members involved in water management, covering topics such as basic principles of water resource conservation frameworks, water resource management, water resource processes, and industry best practices.
4. Stakeholder-related water risks and opportunities are identified via impact assessments, direct consultations, and through proxy organizations.

In 2025, our total water withdrawal amounts to 511 billion cu. meter, with insignificant water withdrawals from water-stressed areas. After proper treatment, 510 billion cu. meters of water were discharged to different destinations. AboitizPower also had zero (0) water-related SHE penalties. All incidents were resolved without penalty, and a compliance action plan was unnecessary.

Read more about our Water Management data here: Water Management Data 2025 and Water Stress Mapping 2025.

AboitizPower follows its standardized guidelines on solid waste management, including proper segregation, handling, storage, and disposal. This guideline promotes environmentally sound methods that maximize the utilization of valuable resources, encourages resource reuse, recycling, and recovery, and establishes community partnerships where practicable.

Furthermore, the company ensures that all hazardous waste generated within the facilities is properly identified, labeled, and handled to avoid adverse impacts on human health and the environment.

We monitor our operations’ waste management (solid, hazardous, and effluents) programs and initiatives to ensure they align with AboitizPower standards through the Cross-BU Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) Audit Program. As of Dec 2025, 24 facilities have been successfully audited.

See below the total count of findings of our audit from 2023 to 2025:

Fly-ash Management

Starting in 2021, our fly ash by-product is tagged and monitored as hazardous waste. Although initially classified as hazardous, the fly ash generated from our coal facilities is conditioned to be non-hazardous and sent to our partners for use as raw materials in cement grinding and concrete mixing.

AboitizPower strictly complies with all environmental regulations when managing fly ash and bottom ash from its coal plants. By using facility waste as a viable raw material for cement companies, AboitizPower can create a closed-loop, value-adding fly ash management system. Our coal plants have partnerships with cement companies for using fly ash as an additive in cement production.

To align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly to promoting sustainable industrialization, we continue to partner with various organizations and companies to develop innovative ways to use our fly ash and bottom ash, turning them into eco-bricks and other sustainable construction materials. 

Our TSI and TVI facilities have the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities with Kaibigans (“B.R.I.C.K.”) initiative, which upcycles fly ash and plastic waste into eco-bricks, in partnership with local government units. Our GMEC plant also has its own initiative, the Cement Credits program, in which the plant partners with cement manufacturers to upcycle fly ash into sustainable building materials. As of 2024, the program has helped complete 457 classrooms in 70 schools across Bataan’s 12 municipalities.

Data Transparency: 100% of our fly-ash generated is recycled, there’s a difference between the amount of fly ash generated and the amount recycled or reused in a given year can be attributed to timing differences between generation and collection by off-takers, as some ash remains in temporary storage prior to collection. In addition, ash conditioning increases the weight of the ash relative to the dry ash originally generated. 

1. The large increase is attributable to the inclusion of two additional coal facilities (GNPD and GMEC) within the operational boundary.
   
2. The data has been restated due to a typographical error.
3. The data has been restated to include the volume of ash recycled/reused in our GNPD facility.

In our efforts to improving climate change resilience, AboitizPower and its subsidiaries have implemented initiatives and activities that promote biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability.

Our team members’ volunteerism and partnership with our host communities, government agencies, non-government organizations, and people’s groups make these activities possible. Some of these activities include the Annual Aboitiz Group-wide simultaneous tree planting, Cleanergy Park, watershed projects, adoption of protected areas, adopt-a-river and adopt-a-marine sanctuary, agroforestry projects, and environmental rehabilitation. Aboitiz Renewables (the renewable arm of AboitizPower) conducted several environmental activities across the Philippines to celebrate Earth Month 2026. These activities included planting  1000 fruit-bearing seedlings in Barangay Buhawen, San Marcelino, Zambales, 1,000 arabica coffee seedlings were planted along Mt. Apo's Sibulan Trail in Mindanao, under the Kahoy Mo, Kinabuhi Ko (My Tree, My Life) project, and a total of 700 mangrove seedlings in Barangay Lemery and the Bacutan Pawikan Sanctuary and Mangrove Reserve. 

We also adopted a female Philippine eagle named Pangarap in 2010, contributing to wildlife conservation efforts. She continues to receive essential support for her well-being, including funding for food, veterinary care, and shelter maintenance. She now serves as a distinguished ambassador for conservation education, captivating audiences with her majestic presence and inspiring stories.

As part of our environmental efforts, we have installed pollution-control devices, new technologies, and systems in our plant operations to improve our processes and optimize our resources.

Furthermore, to contribute to SDG 15 (Life on Land), the Aboitiz Group, through its A-Park program, has planted over 12 million trees across the Philippines, including 5 million from AboitizPower’s tree-planting initiatives. From 2016 to 2025 alone, we planted over 3.1 million trees in 6,633 hectares.

During these years, the company also contributed to SDG 14 (Life Below Water) through 446 coastal and river cleanup activities, resulting in the collection of 260,908kg of waste. One of these coastal cleanup efforts is called the “Scubasurero,” where AboitizPower’s Therma Visayas Inc. (TVI) works together with volunteer divers, Bantay Dagat, fisherfolk, and members of the Philippine Coast Guard and Philippine National Police, to collect submerged waste near the TVI facility and Bato Marine Sanctuary. Our subsidiary, Therma Mobile, Inc. (TMO), together with local residents and public officials, launched a community-led rehabilitation initiative for the Navotas River. Volunteers of the initiative collected 113 kilograms of segregated waste from the waterway during a clean-up activity.

Learn more about our environmental CSR initiatives here.

One of the material topics associated with the energy sector is GHG emissions. At AboitizPower, we value transparency and integrity across our operations. We are responsible for reporting the GHG footprint of our operations.

In 2021, as part of our environmental reporting recalibration, we launched and utilized a new tool for our GHG emission accounting. We also recalibrated our previous year's results to ensure that the data reported is consistent with the current year.