Kenji Uenishi, President of GE Energy, Asia Pacific, has said that having a diversified energy portfolio is the key to energy security.
“Policy makers have to act quickly to realize the country’s ’green’ potential and improve its energy efficiency to avert the Philippines being locked into a carbon-intensive economy,” Kenji said, in a statement. The GE executive was in the country recently to meet with business leaders and government officials to discuss vital issues in the energy sector.
His trip demonstrated GE Energy’s commitment to help the Philippines meet its increasing power needs. The country plans to triple its supply of renewable energy to 15,000 megawatts in the next 20 years, with the recent launch of the National Renewable Energy Program (NREP).
Kenji, who oversees three primary businesses under GE Energy including GE Power and Water, GE Energy Services and GE Oil and Gas, reinforced the company’s support in the harnessing and utilization of solar energy, biomass and other ‘cleaner’ energy sources to mitigate the depletion of the country’s finite energy resources such as coal and gas. He said that a sustainable and green energy sourcing program will ensure an adequate supply of energy for future generations, adding that “GE is ready to partner with the Philippines to develop its renewable resources.”
On the country’s potential for renewable energy, Kenji said that the Philippines’ manufacturing capacity for solar panels makes it an attractive place for development of solar energy power generation.
GE is also a global leader in the development and deployment of the Smart Grid technology that provides consumers with the information to more efficiently use their personal energy resources. Kenji said that Smart Grid solutions will allow the Philippines to integrate renewable energy sources into the electrical grid by using advanced software, which efficiently balances various power sources onto the grid.
