WEATHER disturbances and gender are two major factors affecting energy consumption, and understanding their effects can help the government find cheaper sources of power, according to a study by state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).
“Typhoons can destroy trees [that] provide more sources for firewood and can bring about heavy rains [that] wash out possible sources of biomass. It also disrupts the processes to produce these energy sources. Firewood takes a longer time to dry up and charcoal making halts. Heavy rains brought by typhoons can cause landslides or damage to roads, which can affect the transport of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas),” PIDS research fellow Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy said in a PIDS policy note.
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