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SEAPORTS

The province is also accessible by boat from key cities in the country, through the major seaports spread throughout the island.

Seaports are located in the cities of Bacolod, Victorias, Cadiz, Sagay, Escalante and San Carlos, and towns of Manapla and Pulupandan. In the southernmost part of the province, the ports in Maricalum, Sipalay City and in Salvacion, Hinoba-an also serve as gateways.

In 2015, total cargo input of Negros Occidental reached 6.308 million metric tons for both domestic and foreign shipments. At the end of 2015, a total of 4.151 million passengers was recorded, based on the shipping statistics of the Philippine Ports Authority – Negros Occidental.

AIRPORT

For air travel, the main gateway to Negros Occidental is the Bacolod-Silay Airport, which is of international standards, that can accommodate chartered and private international flights. Two airlines are serving the province, including Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific. Domestic flights are to and from Manila, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Davao and Clark.

The Bacolod-Silay Airport caters up to 15 flights to and from Manila and four flights to and from Cebu daily. Every week, there are three flights to and from Cagayan de Oro, six flights to and from Davao, and four flights to and from Clark in Pampanga. The Sipalay airstrip in southern Negros also caters to three flights to and from Cebu weekly.

In 2015, a total of 1.378 million passengers was accommodated. Generally, the months of April, May and December have the most number of passengers which can be attributed to summer vacation, Panaad sa Negros Festival, and Christmas vacation, respectively.

ROADS

Negros Occidental has a provincial road network of 424.52 kilometers (km). Concrete roads span 197.05 km; gravel, 210.36 km; and asphalt, 15.11 km. The provincial government maintains 77 bridges. Bridge length for national and provincial bridges totaled 10,497.28 lineal meters.

Data from the Land Transportation Office-6 (Western Visayas) showed in Negros Occidental, including Bacolod City, 169,739 motor vehicles were registered in 2017, comprising 40.79 percent of the total registration among all the six provinces in Region 6.

Negros Occidental Renewal Energy

The need for an alternative source of energy for the increasing demand in the province has pushed the provincial government to decide on renewable energy as its primary source as it is environment friendly and does not need to import its energy source. These include water, biomass, wind, solar, ethanol, jatropha, bio-gas among others.

Negros Occidental is the top producer of solar electricity in the country, with generation capacity of 341.5 megawatts (MW) from five solar power firms operating seven plants across the province. Having Helios Solar Farm in Cadiz City as the Biggest Solar Farm in Southeast Asia which generates 132.5 MW of power.

Solar Farms in the Province:

San Carlos Sun Power, San Carlos City – 59 MW
Negros Island Solar Power, Manapla – 48 MW
San Carlos Solar Energy, San Carlos City – 45 MW
IsLaSol, La Carlota City – 32 MW
Silay Solar Power, Silay City – 25 MW
Helios Solar Power, Cadiz City – 132.5 MW

Four biomass project are operating in Negros Occidental generating a total capacity of 50 MW through bagasse cogeneration from sugar mills with approved feed in tariff (FIT) capacity of 32 MW.

Co-generation Power Plant in Negros Occidental:

First Farmers Holding Corp, Talisay City

Hawaiian-Philippines Company, Silay City

Victorias Milling Company, Victorias City

Universal Robina Corporation, Kabankalan City

Two Bio-ethanol plant is operating in the province, one in San Carlos City, the San Carlos Bioenergy Inc. and another in La Carlota City, the Roxol Bioenergy Corporation. San Carlos Bioenergy is also co- generating power at 1.5 MW.

Renewable Energy Developments in Negros Island with Certificate of Confirmation of Commerciality and Awarded Projects

Type	Project Name	Location	Capacity
Solar	Victorias Solar Power Project	Victorias City	30.63
Wind	Pulupandan Wind Power Project	Pulupandan	50.00
Biomass	VMC Bagasse Fired (Cogen)	Victorias City	29.00
	San Carlos BioPower (Multi-Feedstock)	San Carlos City	20.00
	HPCo Bagasse Fired (Cogen)	Silay City	20.58
	South Negros BioPower (Cane Trash)	La Carlota City	25.00
	BISCOM (Cogen)	Binalbagan	48.50
Geothermal	Mandalagan GPP	Mt. Mandalagan	20.00
Hydro	Hilabangan (Upper Cascade)	Kabankalan	4.80
	Hilabangan (Lower Cascade)	Kabankalan	3.00
	Malogo	Silay City	6.00
	Bago 1	San Carlos City	4.00
	Bago 2	San Carlos City-Murcia	10.00
	Malogo Phase 2	Victorias-Cadiz	3.00
	Malogo Phase 3	Silay-EB Magalona	2.00
	Lower Himogaan	Sagay City	4.00
	Bago Prosperidad 2	San Carlos City	3.50
	Initihan	San Carlos City	3.50
	Bago 4	Bago-Murcia	11.00
	Limalima-Sacop Phase 1	Isabela	2.00
	Limalima-Sacop Phase 2	Isabela	8.00

Source: DOE/NGCP