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Chasing Renewable Energy Targets<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Despite recent mixed performances, renewable technologies need to step up in the coming years as it tries to achieve a number of industry goals set by the government. One of the primary goals is the 35% share of the total installed capacity by 2030 which RE technologies is behind at the moment with only 29.1% capacity as of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The other prime goal is for RE technologies to achieve a 15,304.3 MW total installed capacity by 2030 as mentioned in the National Renewable Energy Program 2011-2030. As of 2020, this number is halfway at 7,653 MW with 7,651 MW more to go. Figure 28 outlines capacity targets per RE technology within a timeframe that covers until 2030. DOE updates the renewable capacity target of at least 20,000 MW to more than 30,000 MW by 2040.[2]<\/a> The program foresees an additional 20,000 MW capacity to add to the grid on top of existing RE capacity. Geothermal capacities are eyed to increase by 1,453 MW in addition to the existing 1,928 MW bringing the total geothermal capacity to 3,359 MW by 2040. Hydropower is expected to be reinforced by 13,440 MW by 2040. Biomass projects indicate new capacities of 1,305.7 MW. Wind capacity is expected to increase by 1,337.7 MW while solar is considered to have enough projects for it to reach the 11,070 MW target.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At present, coal is a major source for power generation in the country as observed in 2019. It accounts for more than half of the production mix. Natural gas is the next big contributor at 21% followed by two renewable technologies with the biggest portions, geothermal at 10% and hydropower at 8%. Oil-based technologies only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\n\n\n[1]<\/a> DOE, Key Energy Statistics 2019, 60.\n[2] DOE, Philippine Energy Plan 2018-2040\n[3]<\/a> DOE, Philippine Energy Plan 2018-2040<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n