We are making impressive gains in shifting to renewables for our energy needs.
Despite steelmaking being an energy-intensive industry, for instance, the country’s dominant SteelAsia Manufacturing Corporation sources 77 percent of its power needs from renewable energy sources. The company now has seven plants operating nationwide and makes nearly 80 percent of the country’s high tensile strength rebar needs.
The Marcos administration has been aggressively pushing for the wider use of renewable energy. Last August, the President ordered wider exploration of all RE sources to support the countryside development. Government set ambitious targets increasing the share of green energy in the country’s power generation mix to 35 percent by 2030 and 50 percent in the succeeding decade.
Meralco’s shift to renewables goes beyond solar. The giant distribution utility is working hard to maximize other potential RE sources. An upgraded FOB at Mavulis Island is one of the priority sites identified in the Philippine Navy’s Strategic Basic Plan 2040. Sen. Tolentino is seeking to fully institutionalize this plan by legislating it. He introduced Senate Bill 6543 to accomplish this.
An incident this weekend, where China Coast Guard vessels rammed Filipino boats supplying our Marine detachment at Ayungin Shoal, should be another reason for increasing the capabilities of our Navy. It will no longer suffice to merely file diplomatic protests in the face of increasing aggression from China’s more intensive naval presence in the South China Sea. Incidents like this last one will only become more frequent as Beijing’s ridiculous territorial claims become more assertive.
When a friend asked me, about 15 years ago, if I would meet with another friend of his who wanted me to write his biography, I almost fell off my chair when I learned who my prospective subject was.
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