August 31, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The Marcos administration is allocating nearly P193 million this 12 months to affect some 1,492 households in geographically remoted areas within the nation.
This initiative marks the primary batch of the Division of Vitality (DOE)’s electrification efforts below its Domestically Funded Challenge – Complete Electrification Program (LFP-TEP) for fiscal 12 months 2025.
For this objective, the DOE entered right into a memorandum of settlement with 5 electrical cooperatives in Luzon and Visayas to deploy energization initiatives in last-mile communities.
The companions embrace Aklan Electrical Cooperative Inc., Aurora Electrical Cooperative Inc., La Union Electrical Cooperative Inc., Quezon II Electrical Cooperative Inc. and Southern Leyte Electrical Cooperative Inc.
“Complete electrification isn’t just a quantity to be achieved; it’s a social contract that ensures each Filipino, no matter geography or circumstance, can profit from the progress our nation is making,” Vitality Secretary Sharon Garin stated.
A DOE flagship program, the LFP-TEP 2025 makes use of authorities funding and brings collectively distribution utilities, electrical cooperatives and different stakeholders to speed up electrification nationwide.
Beneath the preliminary batch, electrification might be carried out by a mixture of on-grid connections, microgrid options and hybrid techniques that incorporate renewable vitality parts.
Subsequent batches, in the meantime, might be applied in phases all year long.
“Collectively, we’re laying down the vitality foundations that may maintain our economic system and uplift our individuals for generations to return,” Garin stated.
Earlier, the DOE estimated round P100 billion in funding to realize complete electrification earlier than the top of President Marcos’ time period.
The nation’s electrification fee was solely round 92 to 93 %, in line with the newest DOE knowledge.
Vitality Undersecretary Rowena Cristina Guevara has stated a whole bunch of underserved and unserved communities “have lengthy been left behind in our nation’s vitality improvement journey.”
Unserved areas are people who don’t have any entry to electrical energy, distribution system traces, residence energy techniques or any microgrid system, whereas underserved areas check with at present served areas the place energy provide is lower than 24 hours every day.
