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DEEP DIVE SESSION

PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF RE FOR COMMUNITIES

September 17, 2021 | 3.30-5.30pm (Manila Time)

INTRODUCTION
One would think that our communities should be enjoying inexpensive and clean energy for their productive activities and social services, especially those areas that are energy-poor, historically. After more than a decade since the enactment of the Renewable Energy Law, we see now mature RE technologies and their prices getting lower. Also, there is a climate imperative to shift away from fossil fuels. The time has come for us to make renewable energy applications in community enterprises and social services the norm, rather than the exception.

AIMS

This session will be a sharing of experiences and lessons in the application of renewable energy technologies for production activities and social services. It shall address these critical questions:

How do we go beyond the “proof of concept” for renewable energy applications?

What are good practices in the application of RE for community enterprises and services?

What are obstacles to getting more RE into practical use?

Above questions shall be tackled by the speakers in their presentations, followed by Q & A.

PROGRAMME

Host and Moderator: Mr. Sixto Donato Macasaet
Executive Director, Foundation for Sustainable Society, Inc.

3:30pm - 3:40pm
Introduction

Mr. Francis dela Cruz
Advocacy Partnership Advisor Insittute for Climate and Sustainable Cites

3:40pm -4:00pm
RE applications in Irrigation and Agri-development

Ms. Lilian Narida
Vice president for finance, One Renewable Energy Enterprise, Inc.

Lilian is a Certified Public Accountant, and has over 28 years of experience in financial and management accounting, financial planning and budget and financial audit work.

4:00pm - 4:15pm

Q and A

4:15pm - 4:35pm
A Spark of Renewable Energy can create a burst of Benefits for the Community

Arturo Tahup
Associate for Community Resilience Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities.

Mr. Arturo “Uro” Tahup, a veteran DRR practitioner, humanitarian worker, and community organizer, worked as project coordinator and humanitarian assistance project officer of international organizations involved in the Typhoon Haiyan response in Samar. He now leads RE-Charge Pilipinas Team of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) in deeply setting its programs and projects on low carbon resilience and energy democracy in survivor communities, and in broadening its network of allies and partners in local governments, civil society and people’s organizations, and electric cooperatives in Eastern Visayas.

4:35pm - 4:50pm

Q and A

4:50pm -5:10pm
RE for households and youth perspective on energy transition

Engr. John Mark Napaoz
President and Founder Solar Hope

John Mark is president and founder of Solar Hope, an NGO that aims to provide solar and sustainable solutions to marginalized communities in the Philippines. He is also currently working as an engineer at the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines as his day job to support his daily living and the NGO. John Mark has been involved in NGO work for more than 8 years and has developed expertise in the fields of rural electrification, renewable energy and community development. He is a Climate Reality Leader pursuing his life mission to give hope and light to the lives and houses of peoples – he is a beacon of hope!

5:10pm - 5:25pm

Q and A

15:25pm - 5:30pm

Photo documentation

CENTRE tech team

5:30pm

Closing

Moderator: Mr. Sixto Donato Macasaet