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TITLE – DOE: Ample Power Supply in Mindanao

AUTHOR – sunstardavao

DATE PUBLISHED – December 4, 2024

KEY INFO – The Department of Energy (DOE) Mindanao Field Office has reported that the region is expected to have an adequate power supply outlook. This indicates that Mindanao's power supply is sufficient to meet current and future demands, ensuring stability in energy availability across the region.

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TITLE – Gov’t Urged to Focus on Renewable Energy Sources, Not on Non-Renewables

AUTHOR – Antonio L. Colina IV

DATE PUBLISHED – October 17, 2022

KEY INFO – The content discusses the Philippines' reliance on fossil fuels for electricity generation, with 69% of energy coming from coal and oil, while highlighting the country's renewable energy targets under the Paris Agreement. It underscores the need for more aggressive renewable energy development, with experts calling for higher targets and faster action to combat climate change.

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Gov't urged to focus on renewable energy sources, not on non-renewables

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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 October) -- Dependence on coal for energy will not help the country achieve its commitment under the Paris Agreement on climate

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TITLE –  DOE Seeks Longer Loans, Cheaper Financing for Renewables

AUTHOR – Gabriell Christel Galang

DATE PUBLISHED – January 13, 2025

KEY INFO – The content discusses the Department of Energy's efforts to secure better financing options and longer loan periods for renewable energy projects in the Philippines, focusing on emerging technologies like floating solar, offshore wind, and waste-to-energy. It highlights the financial and regulatory challenges these technologies face, emphasizing the need for cooperation with institutions like the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and development banks to support the country's energy transition.

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DOE seeks longer loans, cheaper financing for renewables

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The Department of Energy (DOE) has sought the assistance of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and multilateral development banks to improve financing options and secure longer loan periods for renewable energy (RE) projects.

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TITLE – French Energy Firm to Put Up Renewable Projects in Mindanao

AUTHOR – Inquirer.net

DATE PUBLISHED – July 20, 2024

KEY INFO – The content reports that Hydrogen de France (HDF) S.A. plans to establish renewable energy projects in Mindanao, focusing on green hydrogen and decarbonized hydrogen for power generation. This initiative is expected to provide stable power supply to the provinces of Surigao del Norte, Agusan del Sur, and Zamboanga City, following a memorandum of cooperation with local representatives.

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French energy firm to put up renewable projects in Mindanao

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DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Two provinces and one city in Mindanao are expected to have a stable power supply after a French energy firm formally signified intention to put up renewable energy

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TITLE – Mga pasilidad para sa renewable energy, target ipatayo sa iba't ibang lugar sa Mindanao

AUTHOR – PTV Philippines

DATE PUBLISHED – January 13, 2023

KEY INFO – The article discusses the plan to build renewable energy facilities in various areas of Mindanao to increase the region's capacity for clean and sustainable energy. The goal is to improve Mindanao's energy supply, meet its growing demand, reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and promote environmental sustainability.

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TITLE – UNDP helps PH govt to shift to renewable energy

AUTHOR – CNN

DATE PUBLISHED – August 24, 2022

KEY INFO – The Department of Energy (DOE) of the Philippines and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are collaborating to transition the country to clean and renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydro. Their efforts focus on policy support, investment promotion, and providing technical assistance to ensure a sustainable and low-carbon energy future.

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TITLE – Revitalize: Fostering Energy Sustainability for a Resilient Community and Economy

AUTHOR – Mindanao REACH

DATE PUBLISHED – September 4, 2024

KEY INFO – The Mindanao Clean Energy Forum, hosted by the Mindanao Renewable Energy Acceleration and Coordination Hub (Mindanao REACH), aims to revitalize efforts toward energy sustainability, with a focus on the agricultural sector and local government units (LGUs) in Mindanao. In collaboration with key partners such as the Peace and Equity Foundation (PEF), Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU-CREATE-MREC), and local institutions like Cagayan de Oro City and USTP, the forum seeks to foster important discussions and innovative partnerships for a resilient community and economy.

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TITLE – Mindanao Clean Energy Forum X Renewable Energy Congress

AUTHOR – Mindanao Development Authority (MinDa)

DATE PUBLISHED – November 20, 2023

KEY INFO – The Forum X Renewable Energy Congress in Davao City focused on Mindanao's goal to achieve a 50% renewable energy mix by 2030, addressing regional electricity access challenges and promoting renewable energy solutions. Organized by the Mindanao Development Authority, Mindanao REACH, and CentRE, the event, held from November 20-21, 2023, aimed to foster collaboration and innovation in advancing renewable energy in the region.

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TITLE – NGCP Energizes Vis-Min Interconnection Project

AUTHOR – Marivic Omandam Davis

DATE PUBLISHED – May 4, 2023

KEY INFO – The content highlights the successful energization of the PhP52-billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP) by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). This project is expected to enhance power stability and reliability across the country.

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TITLE – Mindanao Clean Energy Forum 2024 Boosts Efforts for Energy Sustainability in Local Communities

AUTHOR – Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA)

DATE PUBLISHED – September 14, 2024

KEY INFO – The content discusses the Mindanao Clean Energy Forum 2024, which aimed to accelerate renewable energy adoption and promote sustainable development across Mindanao. It focused on energy sustainability, the role of renewable energy in empowering local communities, and improving energy security, particularly in Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDAs). This is connected to the research topic by addressing the challenges and strategies for promoting renewable energy in regional and isolated areas, aligning with the broader goal of enhancing energy resilience and sustainability in the Philippines.

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TITLE – Gov’t Urged to Set Up Community-Based Renewable Energy Program

AUTHOR – Antonio L. Colina IV

DATE PUBLISHED – January 14, 2023

KEY INFO – Environmental group Panalipdan Mindanao called on the government to demonstrate "political will" in establishing a community-based renewable energy program to address the island's energy imbalance, where 70% of power comes from fossil fuels. The group emphasized the need for more than just a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants, advocating for a sustainable and inclusive energy future for Mindanao.

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TITLE – A Long Road for Renewable Energy in Mindanao

AUTHOR – Reuel John F. Lumawag

DATE PUBLISHED – October 24, 2021

KEY INFO – The content discusses the Philippine government's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% over the next decade, with a focus on increasing the share of renewable energy in the country’s power mix, especially in Mindanao. The article highlights Mindanao’s energy evolution, including its reliance on coal-fired power plants, efforts to rehabilitate hydroelectric plants, and ongoing renewable energy projects, while acknowledging the regulatory challenges and the need for a gradual energy transition. The government aims for a 50-50 renewable and non-renewable energy mix by 2030, signaling investment opportunities in renewable energy, despite hurdles in policy and infrastructure.

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TITLE – Renewables best option for cheap energy in Mindanao

AUTHOR – Germelina Lacorte

DATE PUBLISHED – December 04, 2022

KEY INFO – The article discusses Mindanao's historical reliance on hydroelectric power for its energy needs, but highlights how rising demand led to an increase in coal-based power generation, causing electricity costs to soar. Despite this shift, the Mindanao Development Authority (Minda) is committed to achieving 50% of its energy supply from renewable sources, focusing on clean energy like hydropower, in response to the projected rise in energy demand by 2030 and 2040.

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DAVAO CITY, Davao del Sur, Philippines - Assistant Secretary Romeo Montenegro, deputy executive director of the Mindanao Development Authority (Minda), loves to remember the time, not so long ago, when electricity rates in Mindanao hovered at P6 per kilowatt-hour, the lowest in the country.

This was when hydroelectricity generated from the waters of Agus and Pulangi rivers made up the bulk of the region's energy supply. The Agus and Pulangi plants had a combined installed capacity of 1,001.1 megawatts.

Pulangi IV in Maramag town, Bukidnon, has three generating units at 85 MW each, while the Agus complex comprises six plants with a total capacity of 746.1 MW. The waters of the 36.5-kilometer Agus River that snakes down from Marawi City in Lanao del Sur to Iligan Bay, come from the vast Lake Lanao, which has a surface area of 34,000 hectares, more than twice the land area of Quezon City.

Amid rising electricity demand, the government relied on fossil-based capacities to fill the gap, fueling the massive entry of coal-fired power plants into the Mindanao grid. And as they became dominant, Mindanao consumers had to bear rising electricity costs.

In Cagayan de Oro City, commercial power consumers of coal-dependent Cagayan Electric Power & Light Co. had to bear a 33-percent increase in cost, from P10.62 per kWh in January to P14.18 in July.

Data from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) showed that as of June 30 this year, the highest actual system peak demand in Mindanao was only at 2,167 MW, on June 1. Based on Minda's economic projections, Mindanao will need an additional 3,000 MW generation capacity by 2030, and another 10,000 MW by 2040, and it wants these to be based on clean energy sources. It fixed an ambitious target of a 50 percent share of renewables in the region's power generation mix.

Enabling policies

In overturning the dominance of fossil-based capacities, Minda advocates an unconventional investment strategy.

"One way to increase the renewable energy capacity is to encourage successful multipurpose cooperatives in Mindanao, especially those with billions of assets already, to expand their portfolio by investing in small renewables, possibly in partnership with local governments or a joint venture with electric cooperatives in their areas," Montenegro told local officials in a gathering of Mindanao Renewable Energy Advocacy and Coordination Hub in July. "This is the kind of design that we hope can be propagated," he said.

Montenegro hopes for localities to build 2 MW or 3 MW capacities whether hydro, solar or biomass, whichever is technically viable in their areas, so these can add up to the projected requirement by 2030.

"Otherwise, we go business as usual, and business as usual is the situation we have today," he said.

He also urged local governments to put up small renewable energy capacities to power their own needs, aside from promoting these in unserved and underserved communities.

According to Randell Espina, dean of the school of engineering and architecture at the Ateneo de Davao University (Addu), the target is achievable if the government stops accepting new investments in coal-fired power plants in Mindanao, and ensures the efficiency of the existing Agus and Pulangi hydropower plants.

Up for rehab

As of December 2020, the Department of Energy said that the Agus and Pulangi plants had a combined dependable capacity of 844 MW although in the first six months of the year, these ran at most 669 MW, per NGCP data.

The aging facilities are up for rehabilitation and uprating, and there are efforts to build a seventh plant along Agus River in Baloi town, Lanao del Norte, that would add 255 MW of power generation capacity.

Espina also cited the need for policies that enable the growth of renewable energy capacities like incentives for installing photovoltaic (PV) panels on the rooftop of houses. With one-kilowatt peak capacity (kWp) panels on each house, Davao City could easily generate some 100 MW to 200 MW of electricity. "That's already the minimum because one rooftop can accommodate up to 10 kWp PV panels," he said.

Solar panels are the "most mature" renewable energy technology commercially available that can be optimized at present, said Nelson Enano, director of Addu's Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technologies and chair of the Ateneo-led research and development consortium Mindanao Renewable Energy R&D Center (MREC).

"If we could require all municipal halls, all government agencies to have solar PVs integrated into their energy systems, then it would definitely have a much bigger reduction on our dependence on fossil-based electricity," he said. "They have rooftops, right?"

MREC has initially mapped out the potential energies that can be harvested in Mindanao, namely, the ocean, tidal and waves in Tawi-Tawi and Surigao provinces; solar in all areas; and wind in Camiguin and offshore on its western seaboard.

"Solar leads all the other energy potentials because of Mindanao's place near the equator," Enano said.

Paradigm shift

Power supplied to the grid is traditionally categorized as base, intermediate, and peaking loads. Base load is meant to satisfy the minimum energy demand and is often provided by large power plants that can assure constant and reliable production.

A peaking load comes in during the short duration when demand spikes and reaches its highest point within a given day; it is halted when demand recedes. An intermediate load transitions from base to peak.

But the regreening of the grid would require a change of paradigm, Enano said, where variable renewable energy sources like solar and wind are integrated as "must-run generators" that will be supported with readily dispatchable capacities to compensate for the fluctuation in production, hence avoiding energy shortfalls.

To provide ramping up capacity for the grid, hydroelectric generation capacities such as the one harnessing the Maria Cristina Falls in Iligan City can be converted into pumped storage hydropower (PSH) facilities that, according to the US Department of Energy, "store and generate electricity by moving water between two reservoirs at different elevations."

In a PSH facility, water is used many times over as it is pumped from the lower to the upper reservoir when there are more capacities producing electricity. When other capacities are not available, water is released to the lower reservoir, turning the power turbines.

Making things happen

Alberto Dalusung III, energy transition advisor of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), said that the report, Towards an Affordable and Reliable Grid with Energy Transition (Target), showed that while wind and solar capacities have variable energy production, these were predictable and could be integrated into the grid without causing problems."If we are biased toward renewable energy, we can find ways to make things happen," Enano said.

Already, the aim of saving on power costs among businesses, communities, and households is driving the growth of the renewables market in the region.

The rising cost of electricity prompts more people to turn to solar energy, said Cecille Rosalita, sales executive of Greenergy Development Corp., a renewable energy company based in Cagayan de Oro City. In Davao del Sur, people are paying as much as P15 per kWh of electricity, so it pays to invest in solar panels, which redounds to a 20 to 30 percent savings on electricity, she said.

In the remote community of Salaysay in Davao City's Marilog district, on-grid solar panels installed through a grant from the Department of Science and Technology allowed villagers to save as much as 46.66 percent on their electricity bills each month, village chief Roberto Itdang said.

The village used to pay P3,000 monthly for electricity, but this had been reduced to about P1,600 after the PV panels were installed. The barangay hall uses the electricity from the grid during the day and turns on the solar battery at night to light the gym where young villagers play.

The gym, which is adjacent to the barangay hall, also serves as an evacuation area during times of emergencies. It was there where people sought refuge when they fled their homes in 2018, during intense fighting between government forces and communist rebels on the outskirts of the village. It's also where they seek refuge during typhoons.

"The solar panels don't easily get blown away during typhoons or strong winds," Enano said. "In fact, they're designed that way. They strengthen the roof. They're also considered a climate adaptation instrument," he added.
* * * (Editor's Note: Reporting for this story was supported by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities under the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship)

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TITLE – Episode 4: Let's Talk Renewable Energy!

AUTHOR – Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability

DATE PUBLISHED – September 7, 2023

KEY INFO – The fourth episode of Climate Talks focus on the significance of renewable energy for Davao City. Dr. Nelson Enano Jr., Director of AdDU-CREATE, will discuss the potential and benefits of renewable energy, its positive effects on health and the environment, and the collective call to action for Davao’s residents to support a sustainable future.

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TITLE – Why Sustainability is No Longer Enough

AUTHOR – TEDx Talks

DATE PUBLISHED – June 9, 2024

KEY INFO – In the TEDx Rizal Street event, Ed L. Jimenez of the Energy Development Corporation will discuss how they are pushing beyond sustainability through innovative regenerative practices to create a better future. This local initiative in Sorsogon City aims to inspire the community by uncovering new ideas, sharing cutting-edge research, and sparking meaningful conversations.

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URL - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320377583_Energy_Flexibility_in_the_Power_System_Challenges_and_Opportunites_in_Philippines

TITLE – Energy Flexibility in the Power System: Challenges and Opportunites in Philippines

AUTHOR – Joy Dalmacio Billanes, Zheng Ma and Bo Norregaard Jorgensen

DATE PUBLISHED – September 30, 2017

KEY INFO – The article highlights the impact of population growth on the environment and energy systems, emphasizing the importance of renewable energy sources in addressing energy demand and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It discusses the challenges of integrating intermittent renewable resources into the power grid, and the role of energy system flexibility in balancing supply and demand, improving grid reliability, reducing electricity costs, and supporting the generation of renewable energy.