“Making the REAL deal happen: Renewable Energy for All”

12 October 2022, 9am-4.30pm | Metro Manila / online

The Renewable Energy (RE) Congress and Exhibit – now on its fifth year – gathers together members of civil society, electric cooperatives, RE enterprises, academe, workers, and youth as well as representatives of national and local government units, and development institutions. Two years since the onset of pandemic in 2020, stakeholders now have another opportunity for in-person and online interface with renewable energy prime-movers.

This annual multi-stakeholder congress undertaken jointly by the Center for Empowerment, iNnovation and Training on Renewable Energy (CentRE) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Philippines, brings to the fore the policies, mechanisms, strategies, and good practices to realize renewable energy for all. It is also envisaged to tackle the new Administration’s strategies in making sufficient, reliable, safe, affordable, and sustainable energy a reality, and in ensuring just energy transition.

The RE Congress is held during a critical juncture of rebooting the economy from the impacts of COVID-19, climate-induced disasters, energy trilemma, impending energy supply shortage and loss of workers’ incomes. It takes place amid unprecedented unemployment, fuel price increases, high inflation rate, and unfolding disruptions in the food and agricultural supply chain.

The event is therefore an opportune channel to discuss the R.E.AL deal or the Renewable Energy for All agenda, and delve on ways to make energy, REAL – how renewable energy can be part of solutions to the country’s plight, and ways to enable broader segments, if not all, of the population utilize clean and sustainable energy.

The Deep Dive sessions during the RE Congress provide spaces for learning and collaboration on productive uses of renewable energy for the agri-fishery and transport sectors – creating potential additional employment and income for local workers and residents. The sessions also allow workers to share the challenges and potential opportunities for them as the country transitions to renewable energy. Likewise, electric cooperatives – especially in islands, geographically isolated, and in typhoon belt areas – can also engage with representatives from LGUs and academe on deploying renewable energy to address unreliable electricity supply and increasing power generation costs from fossil fuel like coal, oil and natural gas.

The 2022 RE Congress also aims to advocate and facilitate collaboration to: Accelerate RE deployment through broader policy, technical, and financial support and to foster partnerships among stakeholders in the planning, development, and utilization of RE; Multiply the number of local governments and electric cooperatives promoting and adopting RE technologies; Integrate in national energy policies and programs needed workers-or labor- and gender-responsive energy policies; and Serve as a venue for participation for workers and women in the planning and implementation of renewable energy and just transition programs.

Register at https://recongress2022.thecentre.ph. Limited slots for in-person attendees.