International Electricity Research Exchange (IERE) Secretary General Tetsuo Matsumura (center) paid a courtesy call to Meralco President and CEO Oscar S. Reyes (leftmost) recently. Also in photo are, Kingsu Marketing Corporation (IERE Philippine Cooperating Partner) President Teddy Kingsu, IERE Deputy Secretary General Yoshiaki Nishimura and IERE Deputy Director Teruo Tagaki. The IERE is a non-profit international organization that provides venues for experts from around the world to share innovative ideas on technological issues and solutions, focusing primarily on electricity. Meralco has agreed to host the first IERE-TIS (Technological Issues and Solutions) Asia Meeting in the Philippines, to be held at the Fairmont Hotel on January 16 and New World Hotel on January 17 to 18, 2013. The convention will gather top officials from the Department of Energy (DOE), the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), and the major electric utilities in the country. Topics for discussion include the Philippine Power Development Program, renewable energy (regulation, policy and projects), smart grid application and alternative fuels development program. For further details, interested parties may go to www.meralco.com.ph/iere


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