The Sustainable Energy Transition (SET) roadmap for the City of Cauayan has been developed to identify technological options and policy measures that will help the city to navigate the transition of its energy sector in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This SET roadmap has two main objectives. First, it aims to establish a scenario baseline for 2019-2030, taking into consideration the current policy settings. Second, it identifies the measures and technological options that could raise Cauayan’s efforts to align with the SDG7 targets as well as achieving deep decarbonization of its energy system. The four scenarios that are presented in detail in this roadmap are:

• The current policy scenario (CPS), which has been developed based on existing policies and plans, and used to identify the gaps in existing initiatives in aligning with the SDG7 targets and the city’s ambitions;
• The sustainable energy transition (SET) scenario presents technological options and policy measures that will help the city to align its development with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly SDG7;                                                                         

• The Decarbonization of Power Sector scenario (DPS) explores the impact of a decarbonized electricity supply on the city’s GHG emissions, and presents multiple pathways that the city can undertake in decarbonizing its electricity supply;
• The Towards Net Zero (TNZ) scenario, the most ambitious scenario, looks at a pathway for moving towards a net zero society through decarbonizing the electricity supply and the adoption of electricitybased technologies.

An additional scenario – the business as usual (BAU) scenario – has also been modelled to provide a BAU baseline where no enabling policies/initiatives have been implemented, or the existing policies/initiatives have failed to achieve their intended outcomes.