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Background and the Problem

Insufficient power supply hugely affects the daily living of many

Filipinos. For achipelagic states such as the Philippines, it is
important to evaluate centralized and decentralized approaches to
electricity supply and sustainable electricity (Bertheau and
Cador,2019). This is an alarming issue which needs to be solved
rightaway.
In the Philippines,fossil fuels are the sources most industries
rely on because it can supply huge energy needs. According to Quitoras,
Abundo and Danao (2018), the Philippines is currently addressing its
growing concerns on how to meet its ballooning energy demand in parallel
to having a good energy mix in terms of its renewable and non-renewable
resources. According to the Department of Energy (DOE), roughly 76% of
the Philippines' energy sources came from fossil fuels and the remaining
percent was mainly attributable to the renewables. Although these can
power uo large facilities, these are still unsustainable and were very
costly to be the contiuous supply of the enormous power needs. Aside
from being unsustainable and expensive, it releases carbon dioxide (CO2)
when burned resulting to the worsening of global warming.
As a response, the government enacted two legislations to promote
renewable energy (RE) deployment in recognition of the advantages of the
use of RE as the country's energy source. These were the Republic Act
(RA) No. 9513 or the Renewable Energy Act of 2008 which aims to promote
the development, utilization and commercialization of renewable energy
resources and for other purposes; and the RA 9367 otherwise known as the
Biofuels Act of 2006, is an act to direct the use of biofuels,
establishing for this purpose, the biofuels program, appropriating funds
therefore and for other purposes. However, there remain issues and
criticisms on the promotion of RE tecnologies and on implementation of
the RE laws (Rosellon,2017). Thus, it is needed to take a step towards
this issue in the small scales of the community-barangays.
Amongst all renewable resources,solar power is the best optiom because
it is completely renewable and the costs of installations are outweighed
by the money saved in energy bills from traditional suppliers, and it
produces no harm and emits no greenhouse gas and is pollution free
(Renewable Resources Coalition,2016).
The above insights help the proponents to conceptualize a feasible
and environmental-friendly solution in the micro-levels to address the
insufficiency of power supply. This Project Innovated Go-lamps to meet
Necessity in Terms of Electricity (IGNITE) will be benefited by the
community to have altenative electric supply that produces no harm to
the environment. Eventually, we will not only end up with an efficient
power supply but also to an Earth that's healthy and alright.