The Department of Energy (DOE) is studying prospects of opening up the renewable energy (RE) sector to 100 percent foreign ownership, primarily in the domain of solar and wind farm installations, for the manufacturing sector. Energy Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla raised this possibility as he...
Gov’t hikes new RE installations target to 52,826MW By MYRNA M. VELASCO The Philippine government is scaling up target on renewable energy (RE) installations to 52,826 megawatts within 20-year development span, so it can meet the 50-percent share of RE in the country’s energy mix. The target,...
The chairperson of the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB), Atty. Monalisa C. Dimalanta, has resigned from her post effective March 31 this year and is reportedly eyeing a work in the private sector. According to highly placed sources, Dimalanta opted to give up her chairmanship at the RE body...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has forthrightly stated that it has not given any approval yet to the proposal of the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) to hike renewable energy (RE) installations to annual increment of 2.0 to 2.2-percent from what is presently cast at 1.0-percent increment....
The government is currently studying if it can establish “technical justification” that will allow higher percentage of foreign investors’ shareholdings in renewable energy (RE) projects, primarily for wind and solar ventures. That policy option is currently being studied by the Department of...
While renewable energy (RE) developers are brandishing that their technologies are already the cheapest in the market, the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) ironically dropped the bomb that the programmed RE projects in the country will increase the power bills of Filipino consumers by P0.23...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has openly declared its ‘preferential treatment’ for renewable energy (RE) projects, but the government’s attention is also being called on managing concerns of efficient grid integration to avoid brownouts; as well as the competition that massive solar farm...
The gnawing coronavirus pandemic we’re wrestling with puts in view the fragility of any country – the crisis stirred up extreme socio-economic conundrum that will push not just government leaders but also the citizens to re-think policies and life choices moving forward. In the Philippines, the...
