The country’s grand ambition for massive solar power installations could result in weaker food sustainability, because energy developments could snatch lands that could have otherwise been allocated for agricultural production, a study outcome of the Department of Energy (DOE) has shown. The DOE...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is mandating all distribution utilities (DUs) to submit their updated Distribution Development Plan (DDP) that shall factor in supply-demand as well as load growth projections in their network; and for them to flesh out also the coverage of their power supply...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is scouting for investor-challengers in at least two coal operating contracts (COCs) that it tendered for specified blocks in Visayas and Mindanao. For the targeted Mindanao coal mine developments, the blocks on offer are those in Asturias in Jolo, Sulu; Carmen in...
The government is eyeing to corner P2.984 trillion worth of renewable energy (RE) investments in line with the country’s clean energy scenario (CES) pathway that it targets to concretize in a span of two decades. In an Energy Investment Forum, Director Jesus T. Tamang of the Department of...
Existing generating facilities with definitive expansion plans will be excluded from the coverage of the coal moratorium policy that was finally firmed up by the Department of Energy (DOE) in an advisory that it issued this week. Aside from expansion projects, exempted from the prohibited coal...
To ensure that even people who are slow to understand and unwilling to listen will clearly hear it, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi twice stipulated that the Philippines “cannot really get rid of coal” even on its future energy mix onward to 2040. In an updated Philippine Energy Plan (PEP)...
The Philippines is cementing its two-decade ‘low carbon’ pathway with 34,000 megawatts of renewable energy (RE) installations that shall be integrated into the power mix. At the virtual Southeast Asian Nations Clean Energy Week, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi declared that the country’s...
