DOE invites PE2 to stakeholder consultations for IRR of EE&C law
TAGUIG CITY, 25 July 2019 – THE Department of Energy (DOE) officially invited the Philippine Energy Efficiency Alliance (PE2) to actively participate in the 1st Inter-Agency and Stakeholders Meeting to be held on 30 July 2019 to continue the development process for the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 11285: An Act Institutionalizing Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Enhancing the Efficient Use of Energy, and Granting Incentives to Energy Efficiency and Conservation Projects, also known as the Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EE&C) Act.
DOE is the lead agency mandated by the EE&C Act to develop the IRR. According to DOE, “The Act is envisioned to institutionalize energy efficiency and conservation as a national way of life geared towards building our country as it results to lower energy demand and increased energy security that would effect to improved productivity and energy savings for consumers.”
DOE has hosted Inter-Agency meetings on 21 June 2019 and 10 July 2019 with the formation of the different groups composed of the representatives from the Senate Committee on Energy and the other relevant government agencies that shall work on the different chapters and sections of the Act.
On 30 July 2019, DOE will be broadening the consultations to capture the comments and inputs of non-governmental energy efficiency market stakeholders.
For this reason, DOE invited PE2 president Alexander Ablaza to send an official PE2 delegation. DOE said in its invitation letter, “We would like to invite [PE2] to the said event as we value your contribution to the improvement of a comprehensive and easy to implement IRR of the EE&C Act.”
PE2 will be registering and sending up to seven Trustees and senior representatives to the day-long meeting on 30 July 2019.
The 1st Inter-Agency and Stakeholders Meeting is seen to prepare the way for the public consultations to be held in August-September across Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
