Savings from oil and coal importation
This author stopped making posts at this site under then admin of PNoy. It was clearly not pro renewable energy (or ERC or DOE for that matter) It was political and favored fossil fuel because power from coal is cheap. P3/kwh
1. Thus the FIT for solar was not attractive enough
2. The rooftop solar panels could not get traction because:
1. No decent affordable financing was available
2. The net metering scheme of a DU clearly discouraged solar rooftop.
Of course we could not blame the DU if they entered into take or buy provision (ie) they would have to pay the IPP whether or not the power contracted was used or not. The rooftop panels would lessen the demand and they have to pay still for unused power. This is the real reason behind their adamance to let net metering continue; not the hullabaloo that it would destroy electrical system.
Would Duterte who promised bias towards renewable energy really mean that?
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