The Department of Energy has finally said out loud what the country’s energy planners have whispered for years: the Philippines is sitting on 25,000 megawatts of untapped hydropower, and it intends to do something about it. That is a welcome admission. It is also the easy part. (Read the BusinessMirror story: “Tap P5-T undeveloped hydro resource,” October 26, 2026).
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