The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) called on the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to modernize the transmission network in order to fully integrate renewable energy (RE) into the Philippine grid.
The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities called on the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines to modernize the transmission network in order to fully integrate renewable energy into the Philippine grid.
“We welcome the announcement of the NGCP to integrate RE projects in the Philippine grid, which is a huge step forward in the country’s energy transition. However, in order to achieve affordable, reliable, and secure power in the Philippines, what we need is to modernize the grid. Simply integrating RE in the current transmission setup is not enough,” commented ICSC energy transition advisor Alberto Dalusung III.
“Unlike coal, RE is not intermittent, as previously stated by the NGCP. It may be variable, but it is highly available and predictable. In fact, the Department of Energy [DOE] has identified tens of thousands of renewable energy capacity in their Competitive Renewable Energy Zones [CREZ],” said the ICSC official.
According to Dalusung, RE power plants such as geothermal have the highest capacity factors at 71 percent in 2022, compared to coal power plants at only 65 percent. “This is against the common notion about coal plants being highly available and reliable,” he said.
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