MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) reflects on this critical commentary against the targeted increase to 55.8% of renewable energy by 2040 share for the country citing the low standing of the Philippines in the Trilemma Index and its its anticipated burden to consumer as a result of higher electricity bills. While the current trend that seemed to suggest this may be a failure of how our feed-in-tariff (FIT) mechanism has been implemented, there is more to shifting to renewable energy swiftly than a stable electricity price. With the current climate and environmental crises, there is no stopping the trend towards moving from fossil fuel to renewable energy. It is now just a question of who will pay for this shift. MAKAKALIKASAN believes that the state must subsidize heavily our shift to renewable energy and not rely on FIT. The state must also force the end of more coal sources of energy and the phase out quickly of existing ones to force the increase of phase to develop our RE sources that will in turn improve the overall investment and business environment to make FIT work better. Demand-side management of energy is equally important simply because our current lifestyles are by itself the driver of our unsustainability. The demand for energy must be stabilize and eventually reduce. The assumption of constant increase of demand is ecologically not realistic as our resources and our ecosystems have limits. TO understand Makakalikasan's views on renewable energy, please read this: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/renewable-energy--green-public-works.html
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MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) welcomes the increase of renewable energy share in the country's power mix. However, we disagree with the Department of Energy on such a low target for such a long period of time. If we are to optimize on the availability of renewable energy resources in the country and the global trend in technology, capital and political momentum for swift shift to renewable energy sources, the country must have a much higher ambition to reach 100% renewable energy in the next 10-20 years and not wait. 55.8% is not acceptable.
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JOIN to ACT: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.renewable.energy JOIN MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html Be a MAKAKALIKASAN Founding Member, JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly #RenewableEnergy #RenewableEnergyPH #MAKAKALIKASANParty Original article MANILA, Philippines—Solar photovoltaic and renewable energy (RE) technologies are now required in new and existing buildings after the Department of Energy issued a policy on the adoption of the guidelines of energy conservation. The DOE on Friday released Department Circular 2020-12-0026 that aims to promote the use of the energy-conserving design on buildings and their services. Read more |
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