Usability of Renewable Energy During Disasters plus the State of Philippine Green Energy

The advantage of renewable energy when disaster strikes cannot be denied.

Renewable Energy

Microfinance Goes Green: Energy Inclusion to Help Alleviate Poverty
Sebastian Groh started the session saying, “Financial inclusion causes energy inclusion and energy inclusion causes financial inclusion. This is a bi-directional relationship and combine both financial and energy inclusion initiatives have synergy potentials.” Read more at 100 Million Ideas

RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Lately, renewable energy in the Philippines started to become popular because most people are starting to understand the benefits offered by solar and wind energy. The media is continuously building awareness about these renewable energy sources not only television and print media, but also on the Internet. If you try to browse through the Internet, you will find articles and reports about the benefits of solar and wind energy and why it is a better alternative compared to traditional energy sources. Read more at Renewable Energy Journal

Renewable energy sources key to address energy lack
THE Philippines and other Asean members should continue and expand cooperation on off-grid and decentralized renewable energy systems in a bid to accelerate the elimination of energy poverty. Read more at Sun Star

Manila conference on green, sustainable buildings
MANILA, Philippines—In the wake of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” and the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the Visayas recently, an understanding of green, sustainable building practices for better disaster preparedness is now recommended in rebuilding local infrastructure. Read more at Inquirer

Renewable energy
While presiding over the monthly meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Stockholm, Sweden, in December, 1986, Shiek Ahmed Zaki Yamani, oil minister of Saudi Arabia, then the cartel’s president, told the stunned oil-consuming world: “Oil is not forever. You have just seen the end of cheap oil.” Read more at Yahoo

Yolanda/Haiyan Aftermath

Super Typhoon Haiyan: Donations of Solar Lamps to Help Light Up Devastated Areas
As relief efforts ramp up in the wake of the devastating Super Typhoon Haiyan that ravaged the central islands of the Philippines, aid workers struggle with the the blocked roads, downed power and communications. In the coastal city of Tacloban, Leyte, where no building appears to have escaped damage from the typhoon, Filipino officials enforce curfew as they attempt to restore order on the city, which has had no electricity since Friday. Read more at Weather.com

Solar Thermal Systems Survives Philippines Typhoon
2013-11-21 23:41:21 - Solar thermal system used by the island resort Amanpulo withstood one of the largest typhoons in history. Despite the extreme weather conditions, the roof mounted solar collectors are fully functional and currently operating. Read more at PR-Inside

Yolanda-hit Leyte geothermal plant key to restoring power in Visayas
In the aftermath of super Typhoon Yolanda, the power situation in Central Philippines remains bleak unless a major geothermal power plant in Leyte, which provides nearly half of the power requirements in the region, is up and running, according to Energy officials. Read more at Yahoo

SOLAR FOR PHILIPPINES: HELP BRING LIGHT AND POWER TO TYPHOON YOLANDA (HAIYAN) SURVIVORS
Philippines – After almost two weeks, the devastation left by typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) is still very visible. Survivors on the hardly hit areas in the country are still dependent on relief operations for food and water. Millions still live without electricity. Without power relief efforts are limited within daylight and becomes more challenging with limited communications. Read more at Got Ecotech

ATENEO SOLAR WATER PURIFIER
THE Ateneo Innovation Center has put together a contraption consisting of a solar panel whose main purpose is to produce clean water from river or rain water. Read more at Malaya

Natural Gas

PH weighs options on future of SC 55
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine government is weighing its options on Service Contract 55 (SC 55) oil exploration area off Palawan after the operator, BHP Billiton Petroleum (Philippines) Corp., decided to withdraw, leaving its venture partner in limbo. Read more at Inquirer

Geothermal

EDC withdraws from PSALM contract as IPP administrator
Energy Development Corp.’s Unified Leyte Geothermal Energy Inc. will not accept the award by PSALM to make it an independent power producer administrator, due to the destruction caused by the super typhoon Yolanda in the Eastern and Western Visayas in the Philippines. Read more at Think Geo Energy

Images Sources: Inquirer and WWF