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Fujifilm Philippines captures stable electricity prices by bringing GEOP into focus

In photography, capturing a great image depends on achieving the right exposure. You need a careful balance of light sensitivity, aperture, and shutter speed to produce a clear and stable result. In today’s volatile energy landscape, Philippine businesses face a similar challenge: how to focus on sustainability while insulating themselves from fluctuating electricity prices driven by global oil supply constraints.

For Fujifilm Philippines, the solution is to focus its energy lens toward renewables.

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May 4, 2026

Should we, together, move for a complete energy transition in the Philippines?

The Philippines became the first country in the world in March 2026 to declare a national energy emergency, triggered by geopolitical conflicts happening more than four time zones away. Diesel and gasoline prices doubled and even tripled almost overnight. Every jeepney driver absorbing higher fuel costs, every trucking company passing price increases down the supply chain, and every household paying more for goods that had to travel farther to get there felt the same crisis, but not in the same way. Those with the least buffer felt it the most.

The irony is that the Philippines is transitioning, but not everyone feels it.

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April 8, 2026

In a chokehold: how fossil fuel dependence suffocates the Philippine transport system amidst oil price shocks

Iran is approximately 7000 kilometers away from the Philippines. But an ongoing war in that part of the world rattles ours almost immediately.

This conflict in West Asia (or Middle East to the Western world) has disrupted crude oil shipments to the Philippines, a country that imports about 98% of it to power almost everything from commerce to agriculture. A lower supply of crude oil spells oil and gas spikes across the board.

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April 8, 2026

GEOP amendments help hospitals power “care” with renewable energy

As their first steps into the profession, doctors recite the Hippocratic Oath as a reminder of the ethical principles that guide their practice. Calling upon various Greek gods, new physicians swear to “abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm.”

Yet today, the healthcare sector faces a profound ethical contradiction. According to a report by Health Care Without Harm, in collaboration with Arup, healthcare is responsible for 4.4% of global net greenhouse gas emissions, or roughly 2 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

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February 11, 2026

Putting RE in Resilience: how the Green Energy Option Program can help VisMin tackle energy woes, climate risk

The Climate Reality Project Philippines, in partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), recently held the second leg of Choosing Renewables: Information Campaign on the Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) and other Voluntary Renewable Energy Mechanisms in Tagbilaran, Bohol.

Participants included local power distribution utility companies, government officials, and business owners, whose interest in renewable energy (RE) was evident during the series of talks.

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December 12, 2025

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