Asia Energy

While macroeconomic expansion and the government’s infrastructure development agenda have strengthened the Philippines’ trade and investment profile, rapid development has outpaced the capacity of the energy sector to meet surging consumer demand. In response, long-term policies and international agreements have been implemented in an effort...

Although the world remains largely dependent upon fossil fuels for power generation, a gradual transition towards renewable sources has been taking place since the 1990s, underpinned by multilateral deals such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Doha Amendment and, more recently, the Paris Agreement. Investment and development in renewable technologies...

With territory dispersed across more than 7000 islands, the nationwide provision of affordable power has long posed a major challenge for the Philippines. To alleviate that burden, the government has envisioned the unification of its separate energy networks into a single, national grid, which will facilitate the sharing of electricity...