The Philippines put in a couple of gigawatt (GW) of era capability this yr, with many of the crops fed by renewable sources, the nation’s Division of Power (DOE) has reported.
About 956 MW had been linked to the grids throughout the Southeast Asian archipelago as of November. The brand new capability comes from 14 crops: 12 renewables-based, one oil-run and one pure gas-fired, in response to the DOE.
Moreover 160 MW of battery vitality storage capability was added within the Luzon and Visayas islands, it stated.
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The report on the DOE web site stated grid interconnection was ongoing for Stage 1 of Terra Photo voltaic Philippines Inc’s Terra Photo voltaic Venture following the energization of two substations every with a capability of 500 kilovolts. Stage 1 will unlock 364 MW of the challenge’s deliberate 2,500 photo voltaic capability supported by battery vitality storage methods. The DOE expects Stage 1 to start out industrial operation within the first quarter of 2026.
The initiatives are a part of a goal launched 2024 by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to construct 200 energy era initiatives in three years, the DOE stated.
“To assist be sure that dedicated capability is delivered as scheduled, the DOE is implementing energetic challenge monitoring throughout era and vitality storage developments”, it added. “This contains shut coordination with challenge proponents and NGCP [National Grid Corporation of the Philippines] on grid interconnection readiness, common monitoring of building and commissioning milestones, and early identification of bottlenecks which will have an effect on timelines, resembling allowing constraints, right-of-way points, gear supply dangers and site-level implementation challenges.
“Via these efforts, the DOE goals to strengthen accountability, deal with points earlier than they escalate into delays and be sure that new capability additions can reliably help the grid when they’re wanted most”.
On December 24 the DOE stated it had terminated 84 renewable vitality service contracts up to now this yr for failure to adjust to the Inexperienced Power Public sale Program (GEAP) phrases.
“These terminated renewable vitality service contracts symbolize an estimated 5,372.209 MW of potential capability that had been factored into the nation’s vitality planning assumptions”, the DOE stated in a web-based assertion.
“The DOE is actively revisiting supply-demand situations and endeavor additional system planning to find out applicable subsequent steps towards assembly established era targets”.
The DOE stated it will “proceed to uphold excessive requirements for the succeeding GEAP rounds and will impose additional sanctions, together with blacklisting, forfeiture of efficiency bonds and the imposition of relevant penalties”.
The Philippines goals to boost the share of renewables in its energy combine to 35 p.c by 2030 and 50 p.c by 2040, as set within the DOE’s “Philippine Power Plan 2023-50”.
The roadmap additionally goals for 10 p.c vitality financial savings on oil merchandise and electrical energy between 2040 and 2050; a 50 p.c electrical car penetration charge in street transport by 2040; and the adoption of superior and sensible grid applied sciences.
In line with the DOE’s newest energy statistics report, printed June 15, 2025, coal remained the largest contributor to the nation’s era in 2024 at practically 80,000 gigawatt hours (GWh). Coal was adopted by renewables at over 28,000 GWh. Gasoline accounted for over 18,000 GWh, whereas over 1,300 GWh got here from oil.
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