Manila Bulletin
By Myrna M. Velasco
Published: May 19, 2013
The integration of intermittent renewable energy (RE) technologies will be tackled during this month’s “RE Grid Impact Week” as jointly convened by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammernarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
In a press statement, the German cooperation agency GIZ noted that “despite its long tradition of RE use and generation, variable energy sources like wind and solar represent new challenges for the Philippines in terms of forecasting, planning, and operation of the power grid, grid stability, and market development.”
Germany and other European countries are considerably way ahead when it comes to solar and wind energy developments, hence, they have been extending help to the Philippines when it comes to managing and integrating these RE technologies into its power grids and systems.
“High penetration rates of wind and solar energy are possible as experiences from countries like Germany show,” the GIZ said, but their integration into the grid has some technical limits and complexities.
“The integration of RE necessitates that wind and solar technical requirements like the Grid Code need to be specified; grid congestion has to be avoided through grid extension; and load management has to be improved,” the GIZ added.
The other topics to be tackled at workshops during the RE Grid Week which will run from May 20-24, include On-Grid Net Metering Rules and Grid Impact Studies; and Net Metering Rules and PV-Hybridization in Electric Cooperatives and Off-Grid Areas.
Department of Energy (DOE) Director Mario Marasigan will represent the Philippine government and its energy sector; while another regional perspective will be shared by Tran Nam Trung of VietNam Electricity or EVN. The discussion on grid integration will be spearheaded by expert Markus Pöller; while GIZ chief advisor for renewable energies Hendrik Meller will talk about overcoming grid-related challenges. source
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