Sunstar Davao
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
By ACE JUNE RELL S. PEREZ
THE Department of Energy (DOE) will expand the scope of One Stop Facilitation and Monitoring Center (OSFMC) through the Energy Virtual One-Shared (Evos) System nationwide, an official said.
Undersecretary Janet Lopoz, also the executive director of Mindanao Development Authority (Minda), told reporters during Tuesday's press conference at the ground breaking ceremony of Euri Hydro Power (Asia) Holdings Inc. in New Bataan, Compostela Valley that with the good results of the Minda-initiated OSFMC, the DOE will take the lead in implementing Evos system in the country.
"We are pleased to announce that DOE will replicate the idea of OSFMC and will expand its scope on a national level. We started the initiative here in Mindanao through OSFMc, something that we can be proud of," she said.
Full implementation of the system will start in the last quarter of this year.
The system is designed to unify and merge all application process for renewable energy projects into one. Evos will continue the OSFMC's monitoring and facilitation and will go for unification of application processes to shorten the actual processing period.
"With the data base of this system, you get to see all the pending applications and what are the agencies that are not moving its paperworks, so easier for us to track the status of a certain project," she said, adding that Minda through Mindanao Power Monitoring Committee, USAid and DOE targeted to shorten by 50 percent the renewable energy application process through efficiency optimization of all the government agencies and approving offices concerned.
Meanwhile, a total of 290 RE projects in Mindanao as of April 30 of this year were monitored and facilitated by OSFMC with completed permits by 2016 resulting to 2,998.09 megawatt potential capacity available by 2020.
Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on July 09, 2015. source
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