MANILA - The Department of Energy (DOE) has welcomed the signing of Executive Order 164, or the inclusion of nuclear power in the country's energy mix, as this will address the high electricity rate and secure energy for the future. "We thank the President for seeing merit in the DOE's recommendation to consider integrating nuclear energy into our country's energy mix. Since we want a stable, reliable, and sustainable energy resource, I believe that nuclear is the way to go," DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi said in a statement. In a press conference Thursday, DOE Undersecretary Gerardo Erguiza Jr. said nuclear power is cheaper and cleaner than other sources of energy and will help the country in achieving energy security. Erguiza, chairperson of the DOE Nuclear Energy Programme Implementing Organization (NEPIO), added that the EO provides four cornerstone approaches in developing the Nuclear Energy Program (NEP). These include establishing a national policy on nuclear
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order that outlines the government's position for the inclusion of nuclear energy in the Philippines' energy mix, taking into account economic, political, social and environmental objectives.
This comes around more than a year after the Nuclear Energy Program Inter-Agency Committee (NEP-IAC) submitted the results of its public perception study on nuclear power to the President.
MANILA - The Department of Energy (DOE) has urged consumers to report to the agency oil retail outlets with unreasonable petroleum prices amid the non-stop oil price hikes for the past nine weeks. In a press conference Wednesday, DOE Undersecretary Gerardo Erguiza Jr. said the agency will not allow retail outlets to take advantage of the current situation in the oil market. Oil Industry Management Bureau director Rino Abad said as of March 1, nationwide prices of gasoline range from PHP60 to PHP83 per liter, PHP52 to PHP65 per liter for diesel, and PHP61 to PHP68 per liter for kerosene. Erguiza said retail price of diesel increased from PHP37.59 per liter in March 2019 to PHP54.20 in end-February 2022, or an increment of PHP16.61 per liter in nearly three years. Gasoline prices also went up from PHP43.39 per liter to PHP69.28 per liter in the same period. In March 2019, the price of Dubai crude was at USD72.83 per barrel. It rose to USD96.89 per barrel as of February 28. "As the p
MANILA - The Department of Energy (DOE) has urged consumers to report to the agency oil retail outlets with unreasonable petroleum prices amid the non-stop oil price hikes for the past nine weeks. In a press conference Wednesday, DOE Undersecretary Gerardo Erguiza Jr. said the agency will not allow retail outlets to take advantage of the current situation in the oil market. Oil Industry Management Bureau director Rino Abad said as of March 1, nationwide prices of gasoline range from PHP60 to PHP83 per liter, PHP52 to PHP65 per liter for diesel, and PHP61 to PHP68 per liter for kerosene. Erguiza said retail price of diesel increased from PHP37.59 per liter in March 2019 to PHP54.20 in end-February 2022, or an increment of PHP16.61 per liter in nearly three years. Gasoline prices also went up from PHP43.39 per liter to PHP69.28 per liter in the same period. In March 2019, the price of Dubai crude was at USD72.83 per barrel. It rose to USD96.89 per barrel as of February 28. "As the p