By: Nestor Corrales - Reporter /
05:45 PM May 07, 2019
MANILA, Philippines – President
Rodrigo Duterte has signed the Energy Efficiency and Conservation law, which
would institutionalize energy conservation in the country.
Duterte signed the law on April 12
but was released only to the media on Tuesday.
The new law would “institutionalize
energy efficiency and conservation as a national way of life geared towards the
efficient and judicious utilization of energy by formulating, developing, and
implementing energy efficiency and conservation plans and programs to secure
sufficiency and stability of energy supply in the country.”
The law also encouraged “the
development and utilization of efficient renewable energy technologies and
systems to ensure optimal use and sustainability of the country’s energy
resources.”
The said the law would “establish a
framework for introducing and institutionalizing fundamental policies on energy
efficiency and conversation.”
An Inter-Agency Energy Efficiency
and Conservation Committee will be created “to evaluate and approve government
energy efficiency projects.”
The committee would be composed of
the energy, budget, finance, trade, transportation, science and technology,
interior, and public works and highways secretaries, and the director general
of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).
Duterte said funds for the
implementation of the new law should be taken from the current appropriations
of the Department of Energy (DOE).
The President said the DOE, in
consultation with government agencies, local government units, commercial,
industrial, and transport sectors, and other relevant stakeholders would
promulgate the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the law. /ac
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