(in photo above) Writeshop participants from Guiuan, Eastern Samar and facilitators from ICLEI Southeast Asia during the solar micgorid system project proposal writeshop held in Guiuan on 26 March 2025.
Local government officials in Guiuan Municipality, Eastern Samar, Philippines underscored their commitment to the clean energy transition on 26 March 2025, undergoing a renewable energy (RE) microgrid system project proposal writeshop.
The one-day writeshop brought together technical staff from key municipal offices—including from the Municipal Council, Environment and Natural Resources, Budget, Planning and Development, Engineering, and Public Market Management—to collaboratively strengthen a proposal for a solar microgrid system that would power the Guiuan Public Market.
The public market, a key economic hub in the municipality, has faced persistent challenges from unstable and expensive electricity sourced from the conventional grid.
Facilitated by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Southeast Asia (ICLEI SEA), the writeshop equipped the participants with tools to refine the proposal’s scope, identify supporting local policies, map out stakeholder engagement pathways, and discuss its financial viability.
The proposed microgrid system aims to deliver reliable, affordable, and renewable power to the Guiuan Public Market and potentially neighboring facilities—advancing both economic resilience and climate action goals. Participants also aligned the project with relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), emphasizing its broader impact on clean energy access, livelihood support, and climate resilience.
The writeshop was held as part of the RE-Start Campaign Y3 Project of Oxfam Pilipinas under the technical implementation of ICLEI Southeast Asia. The RE-Start Campaign is part of Oxfam Pilipinas’ Just Energy Transition Programme to promote a democratized energy governance system in the Philippines and support local actors to establish an enabling policy and program environment for accelerated RE transformation.
