[Applause]
good afternoon everyone and thank you to
the organizers of that X for inviting me
to speak to you today so let’s go
talking about transferring lights
through renewable energy so here you go
a light bulb
what do I really think we need to see a
light bulb an object that brings
brightness to a room and your idea and
you thought maybe all of these but if we
look at the light bulb as a darkness
eliminating object have you ever thought
of what goes behind to bring such power
yet the flick of a switch how energy is
transformed you know use energy every
day we go through all our alarm clocks
wake up wake us up we take a bath we dry
our hair we listen to music as we’re
going through and fro school and work
and when we get there we get busy we use
our laptops or computers and then at the
end of the day we go home do more work
maybe you homework for me more work have
dinner with family then take a break
maybe watch movies Netflix video games
then we close our lights and those off a
typical day instant power at the flick
of a switch when we press the on/off
buttons of our gadgets and appliances
that we use but where does the power
come from well to paraphrase a very
popular guy who’s been quoted now twice
to say and is very intelligent energy
can neither be created nor destroyed but
can only be transformed and one form of
energy is electric energy and that is
generated through power plants
transmitted through the National Grid
and distributed by energy utilities
straight to our homes
how has this come about well in the
1800s at the start of the Industrial
Revolution the big lightbulb moment at
the time was when we realized that we
can use fossil fuel to power our
industries factories homes and transport
these fossil fuels which are coal oil
and gas when they are burned they
release
energy with incredible capacity for work
this earth era was also hosts a myriad
of inventors such as Ben Franklin
Michael Faraday the inventor of the
electric dynamo Joseph Swan and Eddy and
Thomas Edison were the inventors of the
incandescent filament lightbulb in their
own countries and overall electrical
wizard Nikola Tesla who is a big
contributor to the world of commercial
electricity
well the discovery of electricity can be
traced back to the ancient Greeks and
ancient Persians it was actually
physicists Italian physicist Alessandro
Volta who discovered that certain
chemical reaction can produce
electricity and so he constructed the
vaulteq pile in 1800s and this is the
first actually electric battery which
produced a steady current and is
therefore the first person to come up
with a steady flow of electrical charge
Volta is also accredited for having
created the first transmission of
electricity by connecting and linking
positively charged and negatively
charged connectors and driving an
electric charge of voltage through them
now before I become too technical and
don’t worry I won’t go that route too
much how do I know this when I’m not an
engineer math and I actually didn’t get
along at times maybe that’s why I went
into law school but I know this not
because of mr. Google or Miss Wikipedia
but being for having the privileged and
to interact and work with people from
the energy sector for the past 15 years
and on time a change an environment for
the past 20 years yes I started when I
was your age so stop computing but I’m
also blessed to have actually a one of
my sisters in law a teacher at of
college physics and she my brother in
fact named their first child Alessandra
Ezequiel who I found the crawler as il
and Alessandro because he gets it
because of Alessandro Volta
so even energy topics of info
that my family my interest is energy is
not just from an economic or
environmental perspective but I’m truly
intrigued how energy can be transformed
to make lives better
and yet still let our environment thrive
have you ever imagined yourself living
in a life without electricity without
appliances without gadgets or even light
bulbs that are working for you
I’m sure if you make a list of all the
appliances the gadgets the machines that
are in your household or even on your
person you would be surprised at the
number that come up with yet many take
us for granted our demand for energy has
growing year after year and this allows
us to do many things and it’s growing
because we need it to power our homes
and businesses
yet the conventional approaches to
producing energy have come at a great
strain to our planet over the decades
we’ve been relying on dirty and harmful
fossil fuel to power our industries and
lives to the detriment of our
environment our energy systems are
outdated and the production of
electricity has become more costly in
fact if you ask your parents you
probably can ask them how expensive
electricity is at the moment and it’s
not just a costly from a financial
perspective it’s accompanied by costly
social and environmental impacts for
example did you know that fossil fuel
use consumes a lot of water and that it
has negative impacts on water resources
and nearby communities as a result of
pollution during the production process
the burning of coal for electricity is a
serious health concern globally and it’s
causing more than 800,000 premature
deaths worldwide each year and are
relentless demand for energy is
releasing vast amounts of greenhouse
gases into the atmosphere which is
contributing to climate change problems
that we have and as the earth were warms
up and continuously warms up we will
bear the brunt of stronger typhoons
stronger disasters that
come in harm’s way and bringing hundreds
of people in it in fact we’re using more
than what we need we only have one
planet right and yep why are you
behaving as if we have in our disposal
and consuming resources more by as if we
have 1.6 planets at the our disposal
have you already found Planet Li
we’re actually exhausting all the
foreign resources or the ability of our
planet to actually replenish itself in
its lost resources so this definitely
has to stop and we need to change and we
need to transform and it starts with us
action
it starts in how we use energy the earth
is blessed with an abundance of natural
sources of energy that is waiting to be
babbled
we have what we call the Big Show which
is biomass geothermal solar hydro ocean
and wind and these renewable energies
are actually all around us and can
complement each other to supply our
energy needs 24/7 we’re actually using
point 33% of renewable energy use in our
energy mix but we end up with a really
believe that we can do better and in
fact aim for a hundred percent renewable
energy by 2050 how do we know this
possible well we’re actually have
various renewable energy facilities
already in the country we have been
using runoff River hydro since 1927 and
the Philippines is one of the leading
the leading producers of geothermal
energy worldwide only second to the
United States in fact when you ask the
Department of Energy for every five
light bulb slit one is powered by
geothermal our country is also blessed
with solar and wind potential which is
plentiful across the country and solar
and wind technology and battery storage
costs have been going down tremendously
we also have so many agricultural waste
which can be transformed into biomass
and we live in a
archipelagic country with long
coastlines which has vast potential for
ocean energy so with the help of
government and stakeholders like you and
me and energy producers the right energy
policy planning and management can
actually set us up for a much needed
energy infrastructure which will realize
a low-carbon future and its efforts like
these which are extremely important in
the light of the Philippines commitment
to the Paris climate agreement wherein
countries have committed to ambitiously
reduce their carbon emissions to be able
to slow down climate change and we
including you can actually advocate for
clean energy by urging our leaders to
make better decisions implement better
laws to strengthen and institutionalize
the use of renewable energy here and
beyond the Renewable Energy Act of 2008
has come a long way and we’ve been able
to promote renewable energies through
through that act in fact guidelines are
now being set wherein energy utilities
are now being compelled to buy more
renewable energy for unpaid and off gate
distribution through renewable portfolio
standards households and businesses can
actually generate their own power
through solar rooftops and sell their
excess back to the grid through net
metering and soon energy consumers such
as you and me can be able to demand our
energy utilities that they will only
Power give us renewable energy to power
our homes and businesses through the
green energy option renewable energy is
good for developing countries because it
actually shields us from skyrocketing
imported fuel it also helps in local
electrification especially for far far
flung areas and it also helps address
energy poverty especially for 11 million
Filipinos who still live in the dark
because they do not have access to
electricity we found that even basic
renewable energy systems can work
complement livelihood projects solar
powered fish
landings centers can be storage
facilities for batteries for for
fishermen solar water pumps can actually
be used to bring water to agricultural
areas where for especially during dry
months and it makes gathering of water
safer for women and children in fact
even simple rechargeable solar lamps can
do wonders in a community children can
do homework after sundown and shorts can
be done more with ease
further families will be shielded from
the use of kerosene which is a fire
hazard and also a serious health concern
by using these technologies they’ve
actually had been able to make more
savings because they don’t need to buy
kerosene and also it has increased their
own well-being but renewable energy has
to be done also in conjunction with
energy efficiency because we all know
that wasting energy is never good so we
have to ensure that all our appliances
are energy efficient and that we unplug
them when not in use even consuming food
sustainably means that the energy used
to produce the food is not wasted and if
we support locally sourced food it also
means that it has less energy footprint
and it took less energy to get to our
plates reliable and affordable energy
cannot is actually one of the biggest
challenges that we have today and
solving energy crisis may seem daunting
or overwhelming but I think it can be
done as long as people work together to
lay the groundwork for a renewable
energy future in fact humans can really
work in harmony with nature and the
future that we’re looking for in terms
of balance it’s not in the future it
should start right now especially when
we focus on energy efficiency and
renewable energy to power our cities or
even our rural areas in our industries
and we definitely have to go there
because the world is now going towards a
low-carbon future and we realize that
possibility we need to connect the earth
and use renewable energy to power our
dreams drive us out of
poverty and realize the potential for
our nation to be a vibrant resilient a
sustainable nation for all now wouldn’t
that be a light bulb moment thank you [Applause]
good afternoon everyone and thank you to
the organizers of that X for inviting me
to speak to you today so let’s go
talking about transferring lights
through renewable energy so here you go
a light bulb
what do I really think we need to see a
light bulb an object that brings
brightness to a room and your idea and
you thought maybe all of these but if we
look at the light bulb as a darkness
eliminating object have you ever thought
of what goes behind to bring such power
yet the flick of a switch how energy is
transformed you know use energy every
day we go through all our alarm clocks
wake up wake us up we take a bath we dry
our hair we listen to music as we’re
going through and fro school and work
and when we get there we get busy we use
our laptops or computers and then at the
end of the day we go home do more work
maybe you homework for me more work have
dinner with family then take a break
maybe watch movies Netflix video games
then we close our lights and those off a
typical day instant power at the flick
of a switch when we press the on/off
buttons of our gadgets and appliances
that we use but where does the power
come from well to paraphrase a very
popular guy who’s been quoted now twice
to say and is very intelligent energy
can neither be created nor destroyed but
can only be transformed and one form of
energy is electric energy and that is
generated through power plants
transmitted through the National Grid
and distributed by energy utilities
straight to our homes
how has this come about well in the
1800s at the start of the Industrial
Revolution the big lightbulb moment at
the time was when we realized that we
can use fossil fuel to power our
industries factories homes and transport
these fossil fuels which are coal oil
and gas when they are burned they
release
energy with incredible capacity for work
this earth era was also hosts a myriad
of inventors such as Ben Franklin
Michael Faraday the inventor of the
electric dynamo Joseph Swan and Eddy and
Thomas Edison were the inventors of the
incandescent filament lightbulb in their
own countries and overall electrical
wizard Nikola Tesla who is a big
contributor to the world of commercial
electricity
well the discovery of electricity can be
traced back to the ancient Greeks and
ancient Persians it was actually
physicists Italian physicist Alessandro
Volta who discovered that certain
chemical reaction can produce
electricity and so he constructed the
vaulteq pile in 1800s and this is the
first actually electric battery which
produced a steady current and is
therefore the first person to come up
with a steady flow of electrical charge
Volta is also accredited for having
created the first transmission of
electricity by connecting and linking
positively charged and negatively
charged connectors and driving an
electric charge of voltage through them
now before I become too technical and
don’t worry I won’t go that route too
much how do I know this when I’m not an
engineer math and I actually didn’t get
along at times maybe that’s why I went
into law school but I know this not
because of mr. Google or Miss Wikipedia
but being for having the privileged and
to interact and work with people from
the energy sector for the past 15 years
and on time a change an environment for
the past 20 years yes I started when I
was your age so stop computing but I’m
also blessed to have actually a one of
my sisters in law a teacher at of
college physics and she my brother in
fact named their first child Alessandra
Ezequiel who I found the crawler as il
and Alessandro because he gets it
because of Alessandro Volta
so even energy topics of info
that my family my interest is energy is
not just from an economic or
environmental perspective but I’m truly
intrigued how energy can be transformed
to make lives better
and yet still let our environment thrive
have you ever imagined yourself living
in a life without electricity without
appliances without gadgets or even light
bulbs that are working for you
I’m sure if you make a list of all the
appliances the gadgets the machines that
are in your household or even on your
person you would be surprised at the
number that come up with yet many take
us for granted our demand for energy has
growing year after year and this allows
us to do many things and it’s growing
because we need it to power our homes
and businesses
yet the conventional approaches to
producing energy have come at a great
strain to our planet over the decades
we’ve been relying on dirty and harmful
fossil fuel to power our industries and
lives to the detriment of our
environment our energy systems are
outdated and the production of
electricity has become more costly in
fact if you ask your parents you
probably can ask them how expensive
electricity is at the moment and it’s
not just a costly from a financial
perspective it’s accompanied by costly
social and environmental impacts for
example did you know that fossil fuel
use consumes a lot of water and that it
has negative impacts on water resources
and nearby communities as a result of
pollution during the production process
the burning of coal for electricity is a
serious health concern globally and it’s
causing more than 800,000 premature
deaths worldwide each year and are
relentless demand for energy is
releasing vast amounts of greenhouse
gases into the atmosphere which is
contributing to climate change problems
that we have and as the earth were warms
up and continuously warms up we will
bear the brunt of stronger typhoons
stronger disasters that
come in harm’s way and bringing hundreds
of people in it in fact we’re using more
than what we need we only have one
planet right and yep why are you
behaving as if we have in our disposal
and consuming resources more by as if we
have 1.6 planets at the our disposal
have you already found Planet Li
we’re actually exhausting all the
foreign resources or the ability of our
planet to actually replenish itself in
its lost resources so this definitely
has to stop and we need to change and we
need to transform and it starts with us
action
it starts in how we use energy the earth
is blessed with an abundance of natural
sources of energy that is waiting to be
babbled
we have what we call the Big Show which
is biomass geothermal solar hydro ocean
and wind and these renewable energies
are actually all around us and can
complement each other to supply our
energy needs 24/7 we’re actually using
point 33% of renewable energy use in our
energy mix but we end up with a really
believe that we can do better and in
fact aim for a hundred percent renewable
energy by 2050 how do we know this
possible well we’re actually have
various renewable energy facilities
already in the country we have been
using runoff River hydro since 1927 and
the Philippines is one of the leading
the leading producers of geothermal
energy worldwide only second to the
United States in fact when you ask the
Department of Energy for every five
light bulb slit one is powered by
geothermal our country is also blessed
with solar and wind potential which is
plentiful across the country and solar
and wind technology and battery storage
costs have been going down tremendously
we also have so many agricultural waste
which can be transformed into biomass
and we live in a
archipelagic country with long
coastlines which has vast potential for
ocean energy so with the help of
government and stakeholders like you and
me and energy producers the right energy
policy planning and management can
actually set us up for a much needed
energy infrastructure which will realize
a low-carbon future and its efforts like
these which are extremely important in
the light of the Philippines commitment
to the Paris climate agreement wherein
countries have committed to ambitiously
reduce their carbon emissions to be able
to slow down climate change and we
including you can actually advocate for
clean energy by urging our leaders to
make better decisions implement better
laws to strengthen and institutionalize
the use of renewable energy here and
beyond the Renewable Energy Act of 2008
has come a long way and we’ve been able
to promote renewable energies through
through that act in fact guidelines are
now being set wherein energy utilities
are now being compelled to buy more
renewable energy for unpaid and off gate
distribution through renewable portfolio
standards households and businesses can
actually generate their own power
through solar rooftops and sell their
excess back to the grid through net
metering and soon energy consumers such
as you and me can be able to demand our
energy utilities that they will only
Power give us renewable energy to power
our homes and businesses through the
green energy option renewable energy is
good for developing countries because it
actually shields us from skyrocketing
imported fuel it also helps in local
electrification especially for far far
flung areas and it also helps address
energy poverty especially for 11 million
Filipinos who still live in the dark
because they do not have access to
electricity we found that even basic
renewable energy systems can work
complement livelihood projects solar
powered fish
landings centers can be storage
facilities for batteries for for
fishermen solar water pumps can actually
be used to bring water to agricultural
areas where for especially during dry
months and it makes gathering of water
safer for women and children in fact
even simple rechargeable solar lamps can
do wonders in a community children can
do homework after sundown and shorts can
be done more with ease
further families will be shielded from
the use of kerosene which is a fire
hazard and also a serious health concern
by using these technologies they’ve
actually had been able to make more
savings because they don’t need to buy
kerosene and also it has increased their
own well-being but renewable energy has
to be done also in conjunction with
energy efficiency because we all know
that wasting energy is never good so we
have to ensure that all our appliances
are energy efficient and that we unplug
them when not in use even consuming food
sustainably means that the energy used
to produce the food is not wasted and if
we support locally sourced food it also
means that it has less energy footprint
and it took less energy to get to our
plates reliable and affordable energy
cannot is actually one of the biggest
challenges that we have today and
solving energy crisis may seem daunting
or overwhelming but I think it can be
done as long as people work together to
lay the groundwork for a renewable
energy future in fact humans can really
work in harmony with nature and the
future that we’re looking for in terms
of balance it’s not in the future it
should start right now especially when
we focus on energy efficiency and
renewable energy to power our cities or
even our rural areas in our industries
and we definitely have to go there
because the world is now going towards a
low-carbon future and we realize that
possibility we need to connect the earth
and use renewable energy to power our
dreams drive us out of
poverty and realize the potential for
our nation to be a vibrant resilient a
sustainable nation for all now wouldn’t
that be a light bulb moment thank you [Applause]
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