ERC collaborates with Singapore school

MANILA, Philippines — The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) continues to reinforce its capabilities in crafting and enforcing regulations through a collaboration with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore (NUS-LKYSPP).

Through a partnership with the NUS-LKYSPP, ERC officials underwent and completed two weeks of executive program on leadership, governance, and public policy.

The collaboration is designed to enhance the technical competencies of ERC’s officials on governance and regulation.

The program included lectures and study visits, through a hybrid set-up of online and in-person classes, to learn about ASEAN and Singapore’s best practices in policy and regulation.

NUS placed 8th worldwide and is the top university in Asia in the recent QS World University Rankings.

“As energy systems become more complex and integrated into other areas of governance, this partnership with NUS-LKYSPP allows our ERC personnel to be directly exposed to regional and global responses to the challenges of our times,” ERC chairperson and CEO Monalisa Dimalanta said.

“We aim to equip our officials through these programs and partnerships with broader perspectives and new ways of thinking to uplift ERC’s contribution to nation-building,” she said.

The ERC is embarking on a transformational journey to become the country’s most trusted government agency.

Dimalanta earlier said her vision is to make ERC a center of excellence not only in the Philippines, but also in the ASEAN region.

She said this would require opening up of the agency to new, better and other ways of crafting and enforcing regulations.

“We can do exchange programs with other regulators in the region so that they can learn from us, and we can learn from them,” she said.

Earlier this year, the ERC said it was collaborating with the National Energy Authority of Papua New Guinea for best practices in the energy sector.