AT The Manila Times' Energy Forum on March 20, the overall message about the Philippines' energy landscape was fairly upbeat. A great deal has been accomplished in recent years, and development work that is either planned or already underway in various areas — generation, transmission, regulation and the energy market — broadly suggests that the Philippines is moving in the right direction for energy security, though the road ahead is still quite long.
Yes, the NGCP does need to expand and connect new generation sources, but pursuing that in the context of grid operation, properly looking at generation plus transmission as one big organism that needs to be kept healthy, doesn't match expectations based on a misunderstanding that the two can be mutually exclusive.'Enhancing' or 'upgrading' the grid to accommodate variable RE sources is part of the same problem.