The Philippines has fallen behind its Asian neighbors in terms of energy access as measured by electricity consumption and electrification rate. Renewable energy, however, has a relatively high share in the generation mix but this has remained stagnant in the past two decades. Meanwhile, the...

In order to address the challenges of energy security and climate change, the Philippines enacted the Renewable Energy (RE) Act of 2008 to promote renewable energy. The Philippine Feed-In Tariff (FiT) policy was designed to provide a guaranteed fixed price to RE investors for a period of twenty...

The transition to an energy mix with lower carbon emissions is hampered by the existence of the so-called energy trilemma. The primary consequence is a trade-off between various objectives of energy policy, e.g. equity and sustainability. This paper proposes a framework and methodology to manage...