PINAG-AARALANG mabuti ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas ang posibilidad na paggamit ng Japan fund sa ilalim ng Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) na pinangangasiwaan ng Asian Development Bank (ADB), para sa planong pilot venture sa hydrogen na posibleng ituloy ng bansa para sa pagsusulong.
Ayon kay DOE Director Patrick T. Aquino, ang JCM-underpinned business model ay ini-eksperimento ng ibang bansa sa Southeast Asian region – kabilang na ang demonstration projects na isinusulong ng Malaysia at Laos.
“In terms of what we’ve seen, the government of Japan really provided a lot of support to their industries – whether on the application of hydrogen for transport, whether on the support for industries,” anito.
Ipinahiwatig naman ni Aquino na habang ang Pilipinas ay walang “luxury of cornering government financial support’ para patunayan ang commercial viability ng innovative technologies gaya ng hydrogen, ang available na pondo “from offshore peers could be the way forward.”
“In terms of having bilateral demonstrations, for the Philippines – there are opportunities. There’s the JCM, so there’s an opportunity for us to do some demonstration projects,” binigyang -diin ni Aquino.
Tinuran pa ni Aquino na “it will depend on the Philippine government side on how they want to proceed – but what’s clear to us, let’s say for a grant, the JCM might be more applicable – so carbon credits, that’s the approach being taken.”
Giit nito, “the JCM framework had already been dangled by the Japanese government to the Philippine RE sector – but these have been in other installations like geothermal as well as waste-to-energy technologies.”
At upang palawakin ang sakop nito para sa kalaunan ay i-rollout ang asul o berdeng hydrogen innovative technologies sa sektor ng enerhiya sa Pilipinas, ang panukala ay binanggit sa Department of Energy (DOE) para rebisahin ang aplikasyon ng JCM agreements sa bansa.
“In the previous administration, there was already a working framework – there are a couple of projects that already benefited from this – mostly renewable energy. So what our Japanese counterparts have been saying is that: we might want to revisit the composition – the JCM and go through that mechanism again for possible application to hydrogen,” paliwanag nito.
Ipinagpalagay naman ni Aquino na ang pagsandal sa JCM fund ay maaaring maging feasible pathway para sa hydrogen rollout sa Pilipinas lalo na “with the massive offshore wind potential of the country – which Japan could eventually utilize to accelerate its green hydrogen production.”
“The end-users of all these hydrogen — whether it’s green or blue will be to decarbonize or to lessen the fuel requirements – to shift them away from the conventional technologies, so that goes along with JCM criteria,” ang pahayag ni Aquino.
Sa kaso naman ng Pilipinas, ang kasalukuyan nakikita bilang potential applications para sa hydrogen ay para sa “load balancing or energy storage – that’s the thing that we see hydrogen would be playing a role on in our energy system.” Kris Jose
