Despite the passage of the Renewable Energy Act of 2008

“Despite the passage of the Renewable Energy Act of 2008, renewable electricity’s percentage within the power blend has now not extended from 34 percent in that year. In fact, it has even reduced to 29 percent as of 2016,” Arances said.
“About 70 percentage of power projects to go online in 2019 will be from coal. This means that by way of 2021, coal will supply at the least 50 percentage of our electricity wishes,” he brought.

On April 29, 2016, Meralco filed separate applications for approval of separate PSAs with the subsequent energy generation organizations: Redondo Peninsula Energy, Inc. (RPE) with 225-MW, Atimonan One Energy, Inc. (A1E) 1,two hundred-MW, St. Raphael Power Generation Corp. (SRPGC) four hundred-MW, Central Luzon Premiere Power Corp. (CLPPC) 528-MW, Mariveles Power Generation Corp. (MPGC) 528-MW, Panay Energy Devt. Corp. (PEDC) 70-MW, and Global Luzon Energy Devt. Corp. (GLEDC) six hundred-MW,

Butch Junia of the FDC, who filed a petition for intervention regarding the PSAs remaining June 13, talked about that Meralco’s middle of the night contracts have to be subjected to the aggressive choice technique (CSP) so that you can confirm if “it's far the quality and least fee supply for purchasers.”

“Conveniently for Meralco, ERC had previously reset the CSP’s effectivity date final yr from Nov 6, 2015 to April 30, 2016. This could exempt the PSAs from undergoing the obvious and public bidding ordained within the CSP,” Junia stated.

“Even with this, Meralco’s PSA programs were nonetheless overdue, as it became filed after workplace hours of April 29 2016, which became a Friday and the closing enterprise day of April. Thus, ERC should observe its own regulations and throw out the midnight contracts in order that a obvious and public bidding may take vicinity,” he added.

Members of civil society and representatives

Members of civil society and representatives of consumers and coal-affected groups marched to the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) office in Pasig on Wednesday to record petitions for intervention regarding the united states’s largest power distribution application Manila Electric Co. (Meralco’s) software for energy supply agreements (PSAs) with seven coal-fired strength flowers throughout the united states of america.

The Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED), along with Sanlakas, Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ), Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), Koalisying Pabahay ng Pilipinas (KPP) and different member corporations of the Power for People (P4P) filed separate petitions questioning various irregularities regarding the technique of software, in addition to terrible results which would arise if Meralco’s application is granted.

“The approval of Meralco’s PSAs might lead to a few,551-megawatt (MW) of coal entering the pipeline, which would pose excellent harm to the human beings’s fitness and livelihood, in addition to the environment and the climate,” CEED Convenor Gerry Arances stated in a assertion.

“But on pinnacle of this, Filipinos will emerge as paying more for electricity if Meralco could have their manner,” he introduced.
Arances explained that the PSAs will lock the country into a reliance on coal for the subsequent 20 years, because of this that regardless of the fashion of lowering expenses for renewable electricity era like solar and wind, the Philippines will be caught with working and paying for more expensive and dirtier electricity from coal.