The Philippine Division of Vitality (DOE) has introduced new award plans below a 10-year public sale for renewable power growth, with over 3,200 megawatts (MW) of non-floating photo voltaic capability focused to be constructed between 2027 and 2028.
The DOE stated in a press launch it plans to carry the sixth to ninth rounds of the Inexperienced Vitality Public sale Program (GEAP) for undertaking supply inside the subsequent two years, towards the Southeast Asian archipelago’s goal of including not less than 25 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capability by 2035.
GEA-6 would provide onshore wind and floating photo voltaic capacities. GEA-7 covers rooftop photo voltaic and photo voltaic plus battery power storage techniques in collaboration with the Mindanao Growth Authority. “GEA-8 will embody photo voltaic on stilts with the Division of Agriculture, agri-solar with the Division of Agrarian Reform and the Division of Agriculture and canal-top photo voltaic with the Nationwide Irrigation Administration”, the DOE stated. “GEA-9 will cowl biomass, geothermal, photo voltaic, hydropower and onshore wind”.
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Moreover the non-floating photo voltaic purpose of three,200 MW, the 4 rounds goal to put in 5,565 MW of renewable era capability from different applied sciences between 2028 and 2035.
“Succeeding auctions for the remaining capacities within the 25 GW goal shall be scheduled primarily based on the provision of prepared tasks coated by RE Contracts or Certificates of Award, power-supply-demand eventualities, grid circumstances amongst others”, the DOE stated.
Philippine Vitality Secretary Sharon S. Garin stated within the assertion, “By getting ready a transparent, auction-backed pipeline, we’re giving builders and monetary establishments the market visibility they should plan, mobilize capital and ship tasks on schedule”.
“Because the Philippines accelerates towards its targets of 35 p.c renewable power share by 2030 and 50 p.c by 2040, readability in how energy is offered, priced and monetized turns into simply as vital as how it’s generated”, Garin stated.
The DOE offered the pipeline on the Renewable Vitality Funding Discussion board in Taguig Metropolis.
Final 12 months the DOE launched the method for GEA-5, the Philippines’ first offshore wind-exclusive renewable power public sale in response to the company. GEA-5 is providing 3,300 MW of capability for supply between 2028 and 2030, the DOE stated when it introduced the launch June 19, 2025.
The Philippines put in a couple of GW of era capability in 2025, with many of the crops fed by renewable sources, in response to a DOE information launch December 28.
About 956 MW had been related to the grids throughout the nation as of November. The brand new capability comes from 14 crops: 12 renewables-based, one oil-run and one pure gas-run, in response to the DOE.
Moreover 160 MW of battery power storage capability was added within the Luzon and Visayas islands, it stated.
Moreover elevating the share of renewables within the nation’s electrical energy combine, the DOE’s “Philippine Vitality Plan 2023-50” goals for 10 p.c power 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 good grid applied sciences.
Based on the DOE’s newest energy statistics report, printed June 15, 2025, coal remained the most important contributor to the nation’s era in 2024 at almost 80,000 gigawatt hours (GWh). Coal was adopted by renewables at over 28,000 GWh. Gasoline contributed over 18,000 GWh, whereas over 1,300 GWh got here from oil.
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