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San Fernando City
About San Fernando
The City of San Fernando is a 1st class, component city in the province of Pampanga. It is the capital city of the Province and regional center of Central Luzon in Region III.
The city is well known for its giant lanterns and is also popularly known as the "Christmas Capital of the Philippines". The annual Giant Lantern Festival is hosted by the city every December.
According to the 2007 census conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO), it has a population of 269,365 people in 53,024 households. It is located 67 kilometers north of Manila,
50 kilometers east of Subic Bay in the Zambales Province, and 16 kilometers south of Clark Field in Angeles City. The city is positioned at the crossroads of Central Luzon. The city
is named after Fernando VI of Spain and placed under the patronage of Ferdinand III of Castile, King of Castile and Leon, whose feast is, celebrated every 30th of May.
On January 6, 1997, Mayor Rey B. Aquino and then Senator Gloria Macapagal Arroyo launched the campaign for cityhood. On April 27 of that same year, Rep. Oscar Rodriguez filed House
Bill No. 9267 creating City of San Fernando. In 2000, House Speaker Arnulfo Fuentebella and Senate President Aquilino Q. Pimentel signed the approved city charter of San Fernando on December 4 and 13
respectively. The town officially became a component city on February 4, 2001 following the ratification of Republic Act 8990 made the City of San Fernando the 99th city of the Republic of the Philippines.
Strategically located at the heart of the province, the City of San Fernando is home to two public markets, thirty nine banks, forty eight lending institutions (investors), thirty eight
pawnshops, seventeen gasoline stations, three movie houses , thirty nine public and private schools, seven hospitals, thirteen dental offices, nine hotels, twenty eight drug stores,
seven disco clubs, six foreign exchange firms, fifteen garment factories , twenty four groceries, seven supermarkets, forty two insurance companies, sixteen security agencies and
seventy restaurants and popular fast food chains. In addition to being the Provincial Capital of Pampanga, almost all the Philippine banking institutions, military and governmental agencies have
regional offices in City of San Fernando.
San Fernando serves as one of the agricultural processing center of Central Luzon. It is a major rice-producing region and an important sugar-producing area. The Pampanga Sugar Development
Company (PASUDECO) was once the largest private employer in Pampanga. It is a major sugar processing plant in the region. Other manufacturing companies with offices in the city include
Universal Robina Corporation, Zuellig Pharma Corporation, Nestle Philippines, Petrophil, Mondragon Industries, Asia Brewery and Del Monte Corporation. Major bottling companies such as the
San Miguel Corporation Complex, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, Cosmos and Metrobottling area located within the city.
Every year during the Christmas Season, the city becomes the hub of a thriving industry centered on handcrafted lantern called parols. What distinguish the San Fernando Lantern
from the ordinary parol are the intricate designs and the illusion of dancing lights, which focuses on the vibrant colors of the lantern.The current Local Chief Executive of the City, Mayor Oscar S.
Rodriguez is currently the President of the League Cities of the Philippines.
Why San Fernando?
In order to find viable transition to electricity supply that is inexpensive, compatible with the environment and based on secure resources, rigorous criteria was applied by True
Green Energy Group (TGEG) and its partner company Spectrum Blue Steel Corporation (SBSC) to ensure that the technology it advocates produces results that are consistent with a comprehensive
definition of sustainability. By using the Bio Green System Technology that consumes Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and provides electricity whenever and wherever required as long as there is garbage available.
With the mounting garbage problem associated in the fast economic growth that the City of San Fernando is experiencing, it is committed to addressing this problem through innovative solutions.
But the technology offered by TGEG and SBSC presents not only a solution to a problem but a fresh opportunity for the city to co-generate income by putting into the power industry the potential
electricity that will be produce out of it.
Conclusion
The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Agreement between TGEG united with SBSC and the City of San Fernando, Pampanga will not only be financially gainful for all parties. It is also a meaningful
undertaking that potentially could address two major predicaments of the present times, simultaneously: 1. increasing garbage generation brought by economic progress which cannot be prevented,
and 2, exhaustion of natural sources of fuel/energy due to population growth.
The technology the TGEG and SBSC offers, and to which the City of San Fernando agrees, offers innovative solutions to environmental concerns that would eventually turn to welfare effects to its
direct beneficiaries: the households, the industries, institutions and communities that altogether deserve a cleaner environment and a sustainable source of energy.
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