Requested from DOE by S. Medrano at 12:51 PM on
Jan 28, 2022.
Purpose: Thesis
Date of Coverage: 01/01/2021 - 01/01/2022
Tracking no: #DOE-574368251479
Medrano 12:51 PM, Jan 28, 2022
Dear ma’am/sir,
Good Day!
I would like to kindly request for the following information:
1. The monthly/daily/hourly/yearly average solar radiation at Cabangan, Zambales.
2. Monthly average surface seawater and deep oceanwater temperarure at Cabangan, Zambales, or the temperature difference of the surface and deep oceanwater.
The data will be a great help for the success of our project study. Thank you very much!
Division 01:51 PM, Jan 28, 2022
January 28, 2022
Dear Sean Gyen,
Thank you for your request dated Jan 28, 2022 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Average Seawater Temperature and Solar Radiation at Cabangan, Zambales.
We received your request on Jan 28, 2022 and will respond on or before Feb 18, 2022 12:51:34 PM, in accordance with the Executive Order's implementing rules and regulations.
Should you have any questions regarding your request, kindly contact me using the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://www.foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEERPRS01NzQzNjgyNTE0NzkM, for request with ticket number #DOE-574368251479.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Joyanne Faye S. Angeles
Alternate FOI Receiving Officer
Nelly M. Zabala
FOI Receiving Officer
DOE - Records Management Division
Bureau 09:31 AM, Feb 10, 2022
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 alfonso.cusi@doe.gov.ph. 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
Attachments:
Average Seawater Temperature.pdf
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