Renewable energy will lower electricity prices in the long run – DOE
DOWNLOAD PDF TAGUIG CITY, 26 June 2025 –– Increasing the share of renewable energy (RE) in the Philippines’ power generation mix marks a strategic shift away from costly and volatile fossil fuels, and in turn, will lower electricity prices in the long run, the Department of Energy (DOE) emphasized in a briefing yesterday. DOE Undersecretary Rowena Cristina Guevara, in a media kapihan session organized by Clean, Affordable, and Secure Energy (CASE) for Southeast Asia Philippines, said: “We’re focused on ensuring that the transition delivers on its promise of affordability, reliability, and energy security. Renewables have no fuel costs. [...]
This Fellowship Reminded Me Why I Chose Journalism
by Sanaf Marcelo Editor’s Note: Sanaf is ICSC’s Senior Communications Officer for Media and Events, who also served as project lead for the latest run of the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship which concluded in March 2025. Prior to joining ICSC, Sanaf worked as a journalist and media practitioner with experience spanning radio, mainstream, and alternative media. Leading the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship has not only brought me closer to the work I once did, it has reminded me why I chose journalism in the first place. As someone who spent years chasing stories from the ground, [...]
Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship names its inaugural class
Fellows to highlight stories of the transition to renewable energy in communities across the Philippines QUEZON CITY, June 27, 2022 – Seven teams composed of 14 journalists and editors, mostly from Luzon and Mindanao, have been chosen as the inaugural Fellows of the first Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship which will support the production of in-depth and creative narratives focused on the country’s accelerating transition towards modern energy systems. “This fellowship is about the energy transition. It’s really important to understand there is more in the world of energy reporting than just what is happening in the power sector. It [...]
ICSC launches media fellowship honoring veteran journalist Jaime Espina
Applications for energy story grants open until May 16 APPLY NOW QUEZON CITY, March 28, 2022 – A six-month media fellowship seeking to support the production of energy transition stories was launched today in honor of Jose Jaime “Nonoy” Espina, a veteran reporter, fierce press freedom campaigner, and outspoken advocate of media workers’ welfare. This is the first story grant organized by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), an international non-government organization advocating fair climate policy and low carbon, climate-resilient development, the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship aims to amplify energy transition stories in the [...]
Media is essential with or without COVID-19
MANILA, 7 May 2020 – Responding to the shutdown of ABS-CBN last Tuesday, Renato Redentor Constantino, executive director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, said: “We have always considered media as part of a category that's been made popular today by the pandemic: media performs essential work. Media is essential with or without our current setting, just as press freedom is fundamental to any society that values democracy. This freedom is as vital to society as oxygen is to a human being, with or without an emergency. “The renewal of the franchise granted to ABS-CBN is not [...]