by Myrna Velasco May
10, 2016 (updated)
The current energy
officials are drafting several policy recommendations that they would have to
lodge to the next administration for consideration.
In a briefing with
reporters, Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Zenaida Y. Monsada said “we are
drawing up in written form the recommendations after elections.”
As of press time, the
leading Presidential contender in the unofficial count is Rodrigo Duterte, who
at present is reportedly scouting for his prospective Cabinet members.
The set of policy
proposals, according to Monsada, will delve on prioritizing investments in the
renewable energy sector, fortifying the Philippine Energy Plan as well as the
Transmission Development and Distribution Development Plans.
For RE, the plan is to
draw up policies that will further whet the appetite of investors primarily
after the era of feed-in-tariff (FIT) incentives.
Nuclear, as a future
pathway for the country’s power sector, will also be fleshed out and shall be
included in the propounded policies for the energy sector. She said the country
will be hosting the ASEAN Forum about nuclear energy latter part of the year –
and this may guide the next energy planners on policies on this sphere.
“There are a lot of
things that we would want to be continued,” she stressed, thus they will be
engaging the next administration to give attention to specific programs that
they have already started.
In the petroleum
sector, for example, Monsada is batting for the elimination of the tricky
“bote-bote” system of retailing fuel products.
Similarly for the
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the department would want to push for safer
handling of the products and to also stop illegal refilling and other trade
practices.
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