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The Municipality of Paranas in Samar is moving forward in developing its 15-year renewable energy (RE) roadmap, bringing together communities, government offices, civil society groups, the academe, and energy stakeholders to help shape the municipality’s energy future.

QUEZON CITY, 26 August 2026 –– Renewable energy projects supported through the Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) mechanism have reduced electricity bills by Php 0.3916/kWh* across 2024-2025, almost twice the recently elevated FIT Allowance (FIT-All) rate of Php 0.2073/kWh, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC). At the system level, FIT-supported renewable energy generated an estimated ₱99.2 billion in wholesale electricity market savings in 2024 and 2025 alone.

Editor’s Note: Dana is the AGGA Philippines Focal Person for Visayas, and the Vice Chairperson for External Affairs of the Western Visayas State University Development Communicators’ Society. Climate action is often felt and discussed in statistics, from the degrees of continued global warming, tons and tons of carbon emissions, hectares of forest lost, heat index for tomorrow, to the numbers of communities at risk.

QUEZON CITY, 24 August 2026 –– Consumers should not be made to pay for system losses that electric distribution utilities can prevent. The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), in a recent position paper, is calling for reforms that distinguish unavoidable technical losses from preventable losses caused by electricity theft, illegal connections, meter tampering, billing errors, and other operational failures.

PANGLAO ISLAND, BOHOL, 22 August 2026 — With the Visayas grid facing recurring yellow and red alerts amid tight power reserves and several generating units on forced outage, the Province of Bohol is taking steps to strengthen its energy security, reliability, and affordability by making greater use of its own renewable energy resources and planning strategically for future energy needs.

“Metro Manila and nearby provinces have been experiencing heavy rainfall for almost three weeks now, with Filipinos being exposed to daily flooding that submerges their homes, disrupts livelihoods, makes commuting to and from work quite impossible, and leads to school cancellations. The burden is not the same for everyone, as those with the fewest resources to prepare, evacuate, recover, or rebuild are often the ones who suffer more.

The faces, smiles, and laughter of the fisherfolk in Eastern Samar are already familiar. When they see me, they often smile and greet me with a “ma’am” at the end of their sentences, which makes me feel older than I actually am. I grew up in an area where farming is the more common livelihood, so it has always fascinated me to see, up close, the lives of people whose livelihoods depend on the sea.

An mga Bantay han Dagat (Ang mga bantay ng dagat) By Sophia Kaye Fernandez Hindi na bago sa akin ang mukha, ngiti, at mga bungisngis ng mga mangingisda sa mga lugar na pinagtatrabahuhan namin sa Eastern Samar. Kapag nakikita nila ako, ngingiti sila at babati na may kasamang “ma’am” sa hulihan, na tila ba ako ay mas matanda sa kanila.

The Asia Network for People’s Energy (ANPE) is a network of civil society organizations in Southeast Asia that aims to foster a just and democratic energy transition through vibrant engagement, positive just energy transition (JET) narratives, and strengthened civil society participation across the region.

Eastern Visayas has long been recognized as one of the most-climate vulnerable regions in the country. Frequently affected by the impacts of typhoons and other climate-related hazards, the communities have consistently shown their resilience.. But beyond its impact on people, the climate crisis also threatens the region’s rich ecosystem and biodiversity.