The Renewable Energy Research Center (RERC) is mandated to conduct relevant researches in new and renewable energy technologies and promote the same for countryside development in the Visayas. The Center is also mandated to provide the needed facilities for instructional purposes for the College of Engineering and Technology and other allied degree programs including Senior High School to develop the psychomotor skills of the students and to provide working models on new and renewable energy technologies for other students from within and outside the university by establishing an Energy Park. The RERC seal represents its mission of promoting renewable energy sources in the Philippines that includes the promotion of traditional energy sources from solar, hydro, wind, and biomass and the new renewable energy technologies of biofuels, syngas, hydroxy gas, tidal, etc.
In December 1987, the Office of Energy Affairs (now the Department of Energy) financed the establishment of the Affiliated Non-Renewable Energy Center (ANEC) at the then Visayas State College of Agriculture (ViSCA). Its primary function was to promote the use of non-conventional energy in remote rural areas, gather data on energy consumption, supply, and resource availability, and facilitate the planning and implementation of rural energy programs. In June 2006, through BOR Resolution No. 36 series of 2006, the Renewable Energy Center–Visayas (REC–Visayas) was established, utilizing the existing LSU-ANEC resources.
This also led to the creation of an Energy Park. By September 2013, REC was renamed the Non-Conventional Energy Research Center via BOR Resolution No. 52 s. 2013 (Attachment B). Later, in October 2019, the center was renamed once more to its current name—Renewable Energy Research Center (RERC)—through BOR Resolution No. 235 s. 2019.The center is mandated to conduct relevant research in new and renewable energy technologies and to promote these technologies for countryside development in the Visayas. It also serves as a facility for instruction for the College of Engineering and Technology, allied degree programs, and Senior High School. Moreover, it provides working models of renewable energy technologies for students both within and outside the university through the Energy Park.
