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Key Insights from Sustainability 2025 ICCPI Panel: Powering Progress Through Action



At the Sustainability 2025 ICCPI session, industry leaders Alexander Ablaza (PE2 Alliance), Colin Steley (Stratcon Philippines), and Quintin Pastrana (WEnergy PH) shared transformative strategies to accelerate the Philippines’ energy transition:


đŸ”č Measure to Manage “What isn’t measured, isn’t managed.” From households to enterprises, quantifying energy consumption is the first step to efficiency. Leaders must train teams to analyze usage patterns—like HVAC systems or appliances—to drive smarter, sustainable decisions.


đŸ”č Monitor to Optimize Demand charges in global markets prove that real-time monitoring prevents waste and reduces costs. Whether industrial or residential, understanding energy spikes enables proactive adjustments—turning insights into actionable savings.


đŸ”č Produce to Empower Transition from consumer to proconsumer! Adopt decentralized solutions like nanogrids (e.g., Quintin’s Caliraya project) to generate and store renewable energy. Advocate for policy upgrades, such as raising the Net Metering CAP, to enable businesses and schools to export excess power back to the grid.


🚀 Call to Action: Measure. Monitor. Produce. The roadmap is clear—embed these principles into your operations, advocate for scalable policies, and lead the shift toward energy independence. Let’s future-proof our businesses and communities, one kilowatt at a time.



Gearing towards Call to Action instead of Cost of Inaction.


For Alexander Ablaza (President, PE2 Alliance)


- Future-Proofing Talent


Ms. Miles: Let's have a, let's say you have the power to make a leader in the audience.

If you can, if you could make every leader, in this room from the workforce to master a GREEN SKILL. What’s ONE skill, should every Engineer or people here in the room, they can demand to be train by their boss or be train for their businesses and companies.

What's that one Green power skill?


Mr. Alex: I think that everyone and not just the engineers, everyone needs to know to “MEASURE”, they must know how to MEASURE energy. Even in your house, even in your businesses, know how much you're refrigerator is using in a day and that they know how much energy you're taking in air conditioner.


One’s you know how to isolate your load and you know to MEASURE then you can change your behavior on how you consume power.


For Colin Steley (CSO, Stratcon Philippines)


Ms. Miles: Now, Mr. Colin. You have this super power. If you can make one leader here in this room – make ONE Binding Pledge, to transform their energy by 2025, what should the Pledge of this future leader will be?


Mr. Colin: MONITORING. The same with Alex. Because that's where it all starts. And you know, I wanted to make a case study of Italy where people in a residential level have actually demand charges. Here, that's applicable to commercial industrial facilities. But even at the residential level, in Italy and other countries in Europe, you have demand charges.


So, you can't put on your panel your washing machine, everything on the same time, because you will just spike your electricity bill, and that comes down to monitoring.

You can't monitor, you can't measure, you can't measure, you can't make decisions.


For Quintin Pastrana (President, WEnergy PH)


Pioneered hybrid projects with communities and corporations.

Ms. Miles: I have a different question to you. Mr. Quintin, since you have shown to us how you did it in Palawan,


Let's say, among here has been inspired or aspiring to be like you. What ONE Partnership Model that you can challenge the audience to replicate in the next 12 months. To reverse engineer as you said you want more players you have this certain project that you did.

What it is that you want the audience to replicate.


Mr. Quintin: Thanks Miles. Two things, One is as gentlemen mentioned earlier? You're really looking at whatever it is not measured, it is not managed well right. So understand your carbon footprint with what has been mentioned the MEASURE earlier. You can be coming from a consumer to a pro-consumer. You can actually be more proactive about how you're NOT ONLY CONSUME BUT CREATE ENERGY that you can use on your own rather than rely on the grid, which is the boldest thing I've been doing. To do so, by, like example, the concept of nanogrids. It's the first time we've done it. There's a small place in Caliraya which is a rowing boat house that I help put up. And basically we're off the grid. And it's only a three kilowatt system with a five kilowatt battery, but it's 24/7 and I don't have to rely on the outside powerlines. Take power away from my fellow, you know, the Lumbaneños, and take the power away, which is more important for their bakeries, for their sari sari stores, or what not. so by creating that and this does not cost that much money, you're able to produce the energy you need that you consume. And just the right thing because I don't spend more than I produce it, right? For the house. So when you measure it, you produce it, that'll be great.


The second thing, and I think when you start gradually becoming into a large business. Because which business here does not want to grow anyway. Is that you can log now at the ERC, or the DOE for a higher, what they call a NET METERING CAP base from Japan and in Europe are in three-megawatt right in the varies per country but the Philippines the NET METERING CAP is only 99 kilowatt peak so you can tell if your small hospital you kind of export the electricity or if you're a school, schools are actually great client because they only consume power during the days but during Sem Break, weekend and Christmas break they have power that cannot be used if they're over 100 kilowatt's and some schools are growing within the enrollment again so if you can log in together as a Chambers and as a members with the very willing DEAL in here as he, you can raise the CAP towards more developed countries, and then you could export in GRID Large that Electricity was done as a household, now as a consumer, and then you would have the energy to work with, and you could be more responsible about it because you started very quickly. Thank you.


Ms. Miles: Thank you, very insightful, thank you, gentlemen. And that's all for our session.


Thank you very much.


Tough Task.


Meet the Pillars of Power Energy Sector in Philippines at Italian Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines - ICCPI


2nd Philippine Sustainability Now Forum


with Philippine Energy Efficiency Alliance Inc.


Stratcon Philippines WEnergy Global


Session With iONTEK The Power Store


EU Power Energy Products


Green Up Scale Up


Inspired by the visionary minds shaping the future of Philippine energy. Let’s turn insights into impact. 💡⚡


ICCPI session with Ms. Miles Ballestar co-founder of iONTEK Power Voltage Regulator and Italy Made UPS for Philippines, industry leaders Alexander Ablaza (PE2 Alliance), Colin Steley (Stratcon Philippines), and Quintin Pastrana (WEnergy PH)


 
 
 

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