EVisayas: RE vital to disaster response

By Leander C. Domingo

Apr 06, 2024 12:02 am

REGION 8 (Eastern Visayas) government officials, recognizing that renewable energy (RE) is crucial in humanitarian and disaster response, are supporting its institutionalization in the local development plans of provinces, cities, municipalities and barangay (villages) in the region.

Ildebrando Bernadas, head of the Tacloban City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO), said it has been a long dream of humanitarian action 'to really come to know about RE as an alternative for disaster emergency response.'

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