He added that Napocor’s partnership with GPCCI could help in significantly reducing the amount of diesel burned at SPUG plants, noting that Napocor was burning more than 100 million liters of diesel annually.It is aiming to hybridize these plants to achieve the agency’s goal of operating on 100-percent renewable energy by 2028.
The second phase, meanwhile, will involve two to three months of modeling of the selected sites and the presentation of results by German research firm Reiner Lemoine Institut. “The Philippines is experiencing rapid growth in energy demand and the existing fossil fuel generation capacity is unable to keep up with this growth in an environmentally friendly manner,” Schmitz said.