{"id":10461,"date":"2021-04-14T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2023-05-22T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T08:00:12","slug":"decarbonizing-meralco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/publication\/10461\/decarbonizing-meralco\/","title":{"rendered":"Decarbonizing Meralco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The imperatives to prioritize pro-people, pro-climate models in the power business<\/h2>\n\n<p>To be part of the solution to the climate crisis, power companies must urgently shift to renewable energy. This study shows how the Philippines\u2019 biggest distribution utility Meralco, together with its power generation subsidiary MGen, can refocus its business and source all of its new energy contracts from renewable energy while ensuring a reliable, affordable, and secure supply of clean electricity.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2021\/04\/32e45a82-greenpeace-decarbonizing-meralco-04-14-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the report here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2021\/04\/09fa2da1-screen-shot-2021-04-14-at-3.24.08-pm.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2021\/04\/09fa2da1-screen-shot-2021-04-14-at-3.24.08-pm.png 509w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2021\/04\/09fa2da1-screen-shot-2021-04-14-at-3.24.08-pm-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2021\/04\/09fa2da1-screen-shot-2021-04-14-at-3.24.08-pm-241x340.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-30 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/act\/support-clean-energy\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-1024x683.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip.jpg 1200w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"Children at Wind Farm in Guimaras, Philippines. \u00a9 Veejay Villafranca \/ Greenpeace\" title=\"Children at Wind Farm in Guimaras, Philippines. \u00a9 Veejay Villafranca \/ Greenpeace\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/act\/support-clean-energy\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSupport clean energy\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Renewable energy is the key to our country&#8217;s energy independence. But coal companies and politicians are holding us back. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t                                    <a\n                        class=\"btn btn-primary\"\n                        data-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n                        data-ga-action=\"Call to Action\"\n                        data-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/act\/support-clean-energy\/\"\n                        \n                    >\n                        TAKE ACTION\n                    <\/a>\n                \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be part of the solution to the climate crisis, power companies must urgently shift to renewable energy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,7],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability","tag-climate","tag-energy","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56740,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions\/56740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}