The Department of Finance (DOF) wants to stop burning coal in Mindanao, in line with the government’s program aimed at promoting sustainable investments. During the launching of the Philippine Sustainable Finance Roadmap and Guiding Principles on Wednesday, Oct. 20, Finance Secretary Carlos G....
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...
Photo by AC Energy Country now in state of climate justice, passing mitigation The Philippines’ energy industry has to make and carry out firm decisions to become more independent and resilient as it has now arrived at a state of climate justice, which is well beyond mere mitigation. ...
There are still a bunch of coal-fired power plant projects that must be ditched if San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is to prove its commitment to cleaner sources of energy, a pro-environment group said. (Photo by Wander Fleur/ Unsplash) “If SMC wants to grasp at the renewable energy (RE) message, it...
Diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is coming clean on its next wave of energy investments, turning it s back on the industry’s old time favorite base coal plants to focus its fresh capital infusion into renewable energy (RE) installations. “We’re executing on our plans to...
Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) and Philippine National Oil Company Renewables Corporation (PNOC RC) are eyeing potential partnerships in renewable energy (RE). This move should help PFDA, an attached agency to the Department of Agriculture (DA), conserve energy within the fish...
Renewable energy developer Citicore Power Inc. (Citicore) has started an agro-solar initiative in its Tarlac facility, a move that aims to promote food production within the company’s solar farms. In a recent plant tour and harvest festival sponsored by Citicore at its Tarlac 2 solar farm, the...
A waste-to-energy consortium is investing $200 million for its state of the art waste-to-energy (WTE) project in Clark. In a statement, of Metro Clark Waste Management Corp (MCWM) and Plambeck-Emirates Global Renewable Energy LLC said the project will pave the way for waste-to-energy...
After chiding the United States for technically snubbing the Philippines’ offer of energy investments, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi still tugged his way into courting American firms to pour in capital in geothermal as well as petroleum exploration projects being offered by the country. “We...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has laid down a policy allowing “one-year banking” of credits that an end-user may claim under the net metering program in the renewable energy (RE) sector. Under the proposed ‘banking of net metering credits’ as institutionalized under DOE Circular No....
Karen Ibasco Celebrities who are also climate action advocates recount their “green” efforts to help save energy and throw support behind R.E.START, the Renewable Energy Transition Awareness campaign of Oxfam Pilipinas. R.E.STARTis mounted in collaboration with WWF-Philippines 2020, the Asian...
Year-ender Today, I give you pain. Tomorrow, who knows? For industry players in the energy sector, that’s their tale of woe this year given decimated top and bottom lines with demand crash on energy commodities. Onward, uncertainties hold sway. At the height of the lockdown period in March-May,...
