RE Development Barriers
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Workshops, conferences, meetings and roundtable discussions have been conducted with different stakeholders in the Philippines including government agencies, NGOs, private sector, academe and financial institutions to identify and assess the various barriers to the widespread development, utilization and market penetration of RE. The stakeholder consultations during the UNDP-GEF PDF-B exercise have further added to information reinforcing barrier identification. This points to the fact that while a good number of RE projects had been implemented in the past, no concrete efforts have been undertaken to squarely address the barriers which until now continue to dampen efforts for more widespread use of RE technologies. Collectively, the barriers listed below may be referred to as any of the contributing factors or problems getting in the way of efforts to establish a favorable business environment for RE to flourish. There is an active interplay of institutional, policy, marketing, financial and technical problems that impedes the development and commercialization of RE in the country.
