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The responsibility of every
utility to develop and implement DSM plans is provided for under Section
3 of the Framework for DSM in the Philippines issued by the Energy Regulatory
Board (ERB). It is aimed at the electric utilities’ activities designed
to encourage and influence their customers’ use of electricity in
ways that will produce desired changes to both the timing and level of
electricity demand or load shapes.
The Long–term Power
Planning Study for the Philippines has designed practical and implementable
DSM programs as follows:
Multi-Sectoral
Programs
- High Efficiency
Fluorescent Lamp Program (all sectors)
Since fluorescent lamps
are the primary lighting source in all sectors, lamp manufacturers are
encouraged to switch from 40 and 20 watt lamps to 36 and 18 watt lamps,
respectively. As in other countries, the program is attractive to manufacturers,
since smaller and more efficient lamps use less material and cost less
to manufacture than the traditional lamps.
- Low-Loss Magnetic
Ballast (all sectors)
Magnetic ballast uses
approximately one-fifth of all energy required for fluorescent lighting.
The Department through its FATL shall test ballast performance and offer
to manufacturers a voluntary labeling program such as wattage loss number
printed on ballast. Standards will likewise be attached to discourage
illegally manufactured ballast.
- High Efficiency
Window Air-conditioners (residential & commercial)
The recommended program
design builds on existing energy conservation efforts. The existing
minimum efficiency standards and labeling programs shall be continued
and extended to duty-free goods. Minimum EERs for the units shall be
increased to continue the trend of market transformation and to bring
the country’s standards in line with other countries.
- Interruptible/Curtailable
Agreement (industrial & commercial)
The program calls for
large customers to reduce load by turning on generators during peak-load
hours or cutting their power requirements by shifting production schedules
to non-peak periods.
Industrial
Sector Program
The program for the industrial
sector is designed to maximize the utilization of electricity through
the adoption of high efficiency motor and variable speed drives motors.
Since energy-efficient motors and variable speed drives hardly penetrate
into the local market a duty import reduction (10 to 30%) shall be implemented
as a form of incentive.
Commercial Sector Program
Building owners and designers
are encouraged to construct buildings that exceed the standard code
by offering incentives for better than 20% compliance. Eventual tightening
of the building energy efficiency codes for large commercial buildings
shall be enforced to achieve significant savings.
Residential
Sector Program
The following programs
were identified for the promotion of the judicious utilization of energy
in the residential sector:
- High Efficiency
Refrigerators
Mandatory or voluntary
labeling and certification of energy efficient units shall be implemented.
All distribution utilities will jointly market efficient units to encourage
manufacturers to produce efficient models.
A labeling program and
standards shall be developed to gauge the energy performance of the
fans. This shall be done in collaboration with the manufacturers and
other concerned government agencies.
- Compact Fluorescent
Lamps (CFL)
Initially, the program
will focus on the completion of the CFL reliability testing conducted
by the Department in cooperation with lamp manufacturers. Incentives
in the form of low-interest loan and/or other promotional methods will
be carried-out by the utilities. To reduce the price of CFLs, import
duty reduction for CFL components shall be implemented.
- Incandescent Lamp
Replacement with Fluorescent Lamps
The program specifically
addresses the needs of low-income customers by replacing incandescent
lamps with 18-watt straight tube fluorescent lamp and low-loss ballast.
Public
Sector Program
- Installation of
High Pressure Sodium Street lamps
The Installation of high-pressure
sodium street lamps was considered to replace the existing mercury vapor
lamp as well as for other streets where it may have application (i.e.
national roads, highways). Improved street lighting offers a range of
societal benefits not easily incorporated into a standard cost-benefit
analysis; lowered maintenance cost and higher lighting levels resulting
to increase safety on the streets.
In terms of peak demand
savings, these DSM programs are expected to generate 0.21 MW in 2000
increasing to as high as 40.7 MW at the end of the planning period (2008).
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