CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – Amid the warning alerts because of thinning power supply in different parts of the country, stakeholders here are pushing for the harnessing of renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydro.

In a roundtable discussion held at the Bishop Warlito Cajandig Conference in Barangay Salong here on May 17, the organizing Diocesan Social Action Center (DSAC), the Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED), and Lumina Ventures presented the result of a research paper showing that coal remains the dominant energy source in the country, leaving room to explore and advance the adoption of renewable energy (RE).