{"id":233892,"date":"2019-10-08T20:25:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=233892"},"modified":"2019-10-08T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T00:25:04","slug":"house-panel-eyes-russia-as-ph-partner-in-energy-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/08\/house-panel-eyes-russia-as-ph-partner-in-energy-building\/","title":{"rendered":"House panel eyes Russia as PH partner in energy building"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_233893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233893\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71171203_2227392067372263_8460402248118173696_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-233893\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71171203_2227392067372263_8460402248118173696_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71171203_2227392067372263_8460402248118173696_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71171203_2227392067372263_8460402248118173696_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71171203_2227392067372263_8460402248118173696_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Committee chairman Rep. Lord Allan Velasco, who was part of President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s entourage to Russia, said the issue of energy was one of the topics discussed in the bilateral talks between Russia and the Philippines. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LordAllanVelasco\/photos\/a.945035472274602\/2227392064038930\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LordAllanVelasco\/\">Lord Allan Jay Velasco\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The House Committee on Energy is eyeing Russia as a partner in building new sources of energy to boost our country\u2019s energy requirements, its chairman said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Committee chairman Rep. Lord Allan Velasco, who was part of President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s entourage to Russia, said the issue of energy was one of the topics discussed in the bilateral talks between Russia and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Velasco said the two countries could be good partners in building more sources of energy in the field of natural gas and thermal energy production.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that 68 percent of Russia&#8217;s energy production comes from thermal energy, 16 percent from hydropower and 16 percent from nuclear.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is also known as having the largest natural gas reserves in the world, the second-largest coal reserves, and the eighth largest oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are rich in geothermal energy and our seas, we have lots of them, could also be harnessed for thermal energy production,\u201d Velasco said.<\/p>\n<p>The energy panel chair said the country is now geared toward cleaner sources of energy and that natural gas and geothermal energy could fuel the country\u2019s electricity requirements.<\/p>\n<p>He said there are five natural gas plants in the Philippines which, in 2017, provided 22 percent of the country\u2019s total power demand.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker also cited the need to develop and find more natural energy sources as the Malampaya gas fields are expected to hold only until the mid-2020s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The House Committee on Energy is eyeing Russia as a partner in building new sources of energy to boost &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":233893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233894,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233892\/revisions\/233894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}