MOC: Regulations
Map of Content for the regulations digests — the DOE department circulars and implementing rules that turn a statute or executive order into eligibility criteria, rates, procedures, reporting duties, and deadlines. This is usually the layer that answers “what must a project actually do?”. The folder is organized under the section MOCs below rather than as a single list; each entry states what its section covers, and the section page carries the individual documents.
How to use this page
Sections group by reader intent, and a question often crosses two of them — how a renewable project is contracted and how its output is paid for are different sections, as are a captive utility’s procurement duty and the wholesale market it buys from. Compare the question against every entry and open all that materially overlap.
IRRs sit in this folder, not with their parent laws. The EPIRA IRR, the Microgrid Systems Act IRR, and the RA 12120 IRR are filed here with the circulars, because an IRR is operational detail of exactly the kind everything else here carries. MOC: Laws (Republic Acts) holds the statutes themselves. An IRR is always subordinate to its parent law — read both.
Entries on the section pages are chain-collapsed. The instrument currently in force gets the descriptive entry; the predecessors it replaced and the amendments made to it are named beneath it on an italic Lineage: line, so a superseded circular is reached through the document that replaced it rather than listed as a peer. A superseded circular is placed under the instrument that replaced it, not the one it amended — that rule is what keeps every digest reachable from exactly one section. Where a superseded document governed a distinct period whose end is unresolved, it is given its own entry instead and the reason is stated on the page.
Not every document named in a lineage line is in the corpus. Some instruments
are cited but have never been ingested, so no digest exists for them; they appear
as plain text rather than as links, each with the resulting gap stated. Treat an
entry carrying one of those as describing the text before that amendment. The
ingest backlog is tracked in meta/dc-gaps.md.
Implementing rules
- MOC: Framework IRRs — Framework IRRs. The implementing-rules layer under the two structural statutes — the EPIRA IRR and the RE Act IRR — plus the circulars that build out the RE Act IRR’s own fiscal machinery, the Renewable Energy Trust Fund and the duty-free importation track. Start here when the question is how a statute is operationalized rather than what the statute itself says.
Renewable energy
- MOC: RE Support Mechanisms — RE Support Mechanisms. The demand-pull mechanisms that pay for or buy renewable output — the Green Energy Auction Program and its non-FIT technology track, the Green Energy Option, net metering, the Expanded Roof-Mounted Solar Program, and the 30% RE share policy that sits under the feed-in tariff. Start here for how an RE project is remunerated or contracted; the GEAP entries carry the longest amendment chains in the folder.
- MOC: RPS and the Renewable Energy Market — RPS and the Renewable Energy Market. The renewable portfolio standard — the on-grid and off-grid rules, the annual increment that sets how fast the obligation rises, and the enforcement procedure — together with the Renewable Energy Market and its certificate trading, which is how the obligation is discharged. Start here for who must buy renewable energy, how much, and what a REC is.
- MOC: RE Project Development — RE Project Development. How a renewable project is awarded, contracted, and permitted — the omnibus RE contract guidelines, the competitive selection rounds that allocate pre-determined areas, the offshore wind framework, and the biomass waste-to-energy programme. Start here for service-contract types, stage timelines, nationality rules, and permitting, as distinct from how the output is later sold.
- MOC: RESHERR Safety Codes — RESHERR Safety Codes. The technology-specific safety, health, and environment codes of practice issued together in June 2021 under the RESHERR framework — geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind, and biomass/biofuels. Start here for worker-safety and site obligations on a renewable project; the parent RESHERR circular is Digest: DC2012-11-0009: Renewable Energy Safety, Health and Environment Rules and Regulations (RESHERR) .
The power market and the grid
- MOC: Market Operations — Market Operations. The rules of the electricity market itself — WESM commercial operation and its Mindanao rollout, the reserve and ancillary services framework, preferential dispatch for renewables, and the retail competition and open access regime. Start here for who trades in the market, on what terms, and in which grid.
- MOC: Grid Services and Storage — Grid Services and Storage. Policy for the grid itself and the assets attached to it — the energy storage framework, the national smart grid policy, planned-outage scheduling and the Grid Operating and Maintenance Program, and the rules for retiring or mothballing a generating plant. Start here for storage deployment, grid modernization, outage transparency, and plant exit.
- MOC: Competitive Selection Process — Competitive Selection Process. The CSP chain — the single mandatory-CSP circular now in force and the four predecessors it repealed, covering how distribution utilities and electric cooperatives must competitively procure power supply for the captive market. Start here for CSP obligations, exemptions, and the third-party bidding machinery; note that the repeal of the predecessors is conditional and their lapse dates are not determinable from source.
Access, demand, and fuels
- MOC: Off-Grid and Microgrids — Off-Grid and Microgrids. Electrification outside the main grids — the omnibus off-grid development guidelines, the Microgrid Systems Act IRR, the UC-ME subsidy graduation policy, and TransCo’s designation as small-grid system operator. Start here for missionary electrification, who operates an island system, and how the missionary subsidy is claimed and wound down.
- MOC: Demand-Side Regulation — Demand-Side Regulation. Regulation aimed at the consumer rather than the supplier — the energy labeling programme for appliances, the national EE&C plan and the GEMP professional regime, vehicle fuel economy labeling, and the 2023 circulars that set up EV charging accreditation, fee unbundling, and EV recognition. Start here for labels, standards, and electric-vehicle infrastructure rules.
- MOC: Downstream Oil, Gas and LPG — Downstream Oil, Gas and LPG. The fuels side of the folder — the downstream natural gas regime and its two superseded predecessors, the LPG registration and licensing guidelines, and the rules of procedure for downstream oil administrative cases. Start here for permits to build or operate a fuel facility, LPG industry obligations, and how a downstream enforcement action proceeds.