LAST week, the Department of Energy (DoE) updated the media on its Renewable Energy (RE) program, which establishes an ambitious target of at least 20,000 megawatts (MW) of renewables in the country’s energy supply mix by 2040. The goal is laudable, but the ability of the government to actually realize it is far from certain.

According to Mylene Capongcol, director of the DoE’s Renewable Energy Management Bureau, the Energy department is seeking to raise the amount of renewable energy capacity to 15,304 MW in the next 10 years, which would be nearly three times the 5,438 MW that had been installed by 2010.