By Kris Crismundo/PNA
MANILA — The Department of Energy (DOE) has recognized the help extended by the German development agency, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), in advancing renewable energy use in the country, for cleaner and more sustainable power.
GIZ has provided the Philippines technical and financial assistance through a three-year project called Shaping and Implementing the International Climate Regime or SupportCCC II. The project began in 2015 and culminated on Wednesday.
Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said GIZ has played an instrumental role in boosting the deployment and use of renewable energy in the country.
“For three consecutive years, the Philippines ranked first among 125 countries in terms of energy environmental sustainability. This couldn’t have been achieved without the strong collaboration among the different Philippine government agencies, as well as technical and funding support from our international partners, like GIZ,” Cusi said.
The DOE noted that the partnership with GIZ has also helped the Philippine government manage the increasing amount of variable renewable energy, adapt power planning, facilitate capacity building for energy stakeholders, such as the grid operator and the distribution utilities on the grid integration of variable renewable energy.
Aside from these, the partnership was able to provide assessment of the state’s power planning process, policy review on Feed-in-Tariff and net-metering for renewable energy, cost-benefit analysis of the energy sector through the renewable energy country diagnostic tool, and analysis of the Negros solar situation.
SupportCCC II is a follow-through on the earlier project Support to the Climate Change Commission in implementing the National Climate Change Action Plan, which was also implemented by GIZ.
