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News and Updates

Paranas LGU sets example for local energy security and resilience

Jhian Aranas2026-06-09T10:20:22+08:0009 Jun 2026|Tags: clean energy Philippines, climate resilience, energy security, energy transition, Local Energy Planning, Local Governance, Paranas Samar, renewable energy, Renewable Energy Roadmap, sustainable development|

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities PRESS RELEASE PALO, LEYTE, 08 June 2026 — The municipality of Paranas, Samar reaffirmed their commitment to the energy transition and strengthened their local energy security and resilience through the Renewable Energy (RE) Roadmap Scoping Workshop led by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable [...]

ICSC: Recurring grid alerts highlight urgent need for decentralized energy in the country

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities PRESS RELEASE QUEZON CITY, May 20, 2026 –– The red and yellow alerts raised over the Luzon and Visayas grids over the past week highlight how outages from several large centralized coal plants can quickly strain the Philippine power system and result in [...]

20 May 2026|Tags: Decentralized Energy Systems, distributed energy systems, energy security, energy transition, grid alert, renewable energy, Rooftop Solar, Solar Energy|

Stop transferring all risks to consumers [Inquirer]

by Pete Maniego, published through Inquirer.net [READ HERE] I have spent almost two decades in the Philippine energy sector—as an engineer, lawyer, executive, chair of the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB), and now senior policy adviser to Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), which recently launched Presyo-PH, [...]

15 May 2026|Tags: Consumer Power Bills Philippines, Electricity Market Reform Philippines, energy policy Philippines, EPIRA Electricity Law, ERC Electricity Regulation, Fossil Fuel Energy Crisis, Fuel Cost Pass-Through, Generation Charge Philippines, Philippine Electricity Rates, Philippine Renewable Energy|

ICSC: Rotating blackouts underscore hidden risks of centralized energy infrastructure

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities REACTIVE QUEZON CITY, May 14 2026 –– The latest rotating blackouts across Luzon and Visayas underscore the systemic risks created by concentrating generation and transmission infrastructure in a limited number of large facilities and critical corridors. From the forecasted available capacity in Luzon [...]

14 May 2026|Tags: Energy, energy transition, flexible generation, Luzon grid, red alert, rotating blackouts, Visayas grid, yellow alert|

CDO LGU revisits local energy plan, reaffirms commitments on energy transition

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities PRESS RELEASE CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, 11 May 2026 - The City Government of Cagayan de Oro, together with the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), took a significant step toward crafting the city's Renewable Energy (RE) Plan and Roadmap and ensured [...]