RENEWABLE-energy developers might have to wait up to mid-2011 before incentives for them to invest in such technology are put in place, Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said on Thursday.
The department, he told the Renewable Energy Conference, expects the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) to meet all the renewable-energy mechanisms by 2011.
Almendras said the Department of Energy draft for the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) will be done by the second quarter of 2011, and the NREB will submit its proposed Feed-in Tariff Rates also in the second quarter. The green-energy option program is also expected to be done by that time.
Almendras said they expect the collaboration among Renewable Energy Management Bureau (REMB) and all DOE bureaus to be fine-tuned by the first quarter.
Almendras also challenged renewable-energy developers to put up a total of 8,000-megawatts (MW) of generating capacity by 2030.
But in the near term, he also asked them to work to set up, between 2015 and 2016, at least 2,000-3,000 MW of generating capacity in renewable energy.
Almendras also invited RE developers to also look at the possibilities and build renewable-energy generating power plants in nongrid areas.
The RE Conference targets to address long-term issues that have kept the country from making full use of its renewable-energy potential, estimated to stand at 247,000-MW, based on estimates of the US Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory (USDOE-NREL).
The RE Coalition said that though the Philippines is a member of the global community of more than 100 countries that have adopted policies promoting RE use and development, and is the second- largest producer of geothermal energy in the world, the growth of the local RE sector still trails behind that of other countries.
As of 2009, the share of RE in the Philippines’ total energy mix was down to 42.13 percent from the 45.58-percent share of 2001. Similarly, the share of RE in power generation in 2009 was 32.5 percent, much lower than the 37.29 percent level in 2001.
“It is critical to find ways to sustain the momentum that the RE Law has created, especially because renewable energy is an integral part of the country’s energy reform agenda,” Almendras said.
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