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May 3, 2021 | 7:11 pm
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
The Department of Energy (DoE) released the Philippines Power Statistics 2020 this week and it shows some interesting data on the country’s energy mix. Installed capacity in 2020 has reached 26,250 megawatts (MW) or 26.25 gigawatts (GW), and the four biggest energy technologies are coal, oil-based, hydro, and natural gas. In actual electricity generation, the four biggest sources are coal, natural gas, geothermal, and hydro (
see Table 1).
There are three interesting pieces of data here. One, coal constituted 42% of total installed capacity in 2020 but its actual power generation was 57% of the total. The big increase in coal generation came from the Mindanao grid starting 2016 (double the 2015 level) through 2019 (double the 2016 level). There are no longer daily “Earth Hours” and regular blackouts in Mindanao.
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Pic: Shutterstock For promoting ease of doing business and providing quick access to information to importers/exporters, India s ministry of commerce and industry has launched a
Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Trade Facilitation Mobile App. The app, developed by Tata Consultancy Services, can be downloaded from the DGFT website for both Android and iOS platforms. Very often, the simple trade-related process becomes cumbersome, and when they are available with a touch of a button, like with a mobile app, we will ensure the ease of doing business and the speedy growth in international trade, minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal said while launching the app during an online video conference.