The Facts: You probably saw the advertisement of Bongbong Marcos plucking a windmill like a flower and handing it to Sara Duterte.
Also, Bongbong Marcos’s official website continues to claim that he built wind farms in Ilocos Norte to provide power to Luzon. (https://www.bongbongmarcos.com/about/)
This is false.
The Bangui Wind Farm, which is the first power-generating windmill farm in Southeast Asia, was developed by NorthWind Power Development Corp (https://manilastandard.net/…/ilocos-norte-s-windmills…).
No less than the World Wildlife Fund has acknowledged the NPDC project, which is funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) for 37 million USD (https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?13509/First-wind-farm-for-Southeast-Asia).
The basis of developing said wind farm was spurred by a 1996 study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which tagged certain areas in the Philippines as ideal for wind farming, and the units themselves were supplied by Vestas Wind Systems from Denmark.
Neither has Marcos had a direct hand in the development of the other two wind farms in Ilocos.
Read the full story on The Baguio Chronicle.