DC2015-07-0014: 30% RE Share Policy and FiT Auction Mandate

Issued: June 26, 2015 | Secretary: Carlos Jericho Petilla | Pages: ~4 pages

Establishes the DOE policy of maintaining at least 30% of total power generation installed capacity from RE resources through wholistic implementation of the FiT System and other RA 9513 provisions. Mandates an auction system for FiT installation targets after full subscription of existing targets, conditioned on Must-Dispatch IRR issuance.

Sections

§1 — Title: “Guidelines for the Policy of Maintaining the Share of RE in the Country.”

§2 — Policy Statement: DOE adopts policy to maintain at least 30% of total power generation installed capacity from RE through FiT System and other RE Act provisions.

§3 — Replacement Power: RE Developer of FiT-eligible resources responsible for nomination and dispatch of generated power; responsible for replacement power costs for deviations outside prescribed technology-specific range.

§4 — FiT Auction: Upon full subscription of existing FiT installation targets, subsequent rounds shall use an auction system to be adopted by the DOE. Auction criteria: grid security (interconnection, location, technical), cost, and other considerations. Conditionality: auction may only be held upon issuance of the Must-Dispatch IRR.

§5 — RPS Equivalence: Compliance with this Circular = compliance with RPS, once RPS Rules are issued under RA 9513 §6.

§§6–9: IEC activities; separability; repealing; effectivity (15 days after publication in 2 newspapers; “shall remain in effect until otherwise revoked”).

Key Context

2014 baseline cited in whereas clauses: RE = 32.87% of total installed capacity; 25.64% of total generation. Policy targets installed capacity share.

Installation target increases confirmed: Solar raised from 50 MW to 500 MW; wind from 200 MW to 400 MW. (Table in original PDF was garbled in OCR; figures confirmed from whereas clauses.)

Must-Dispatch linkage: DC2015-03-0001 (March 2015) was the Must Dispatch framework; full IRR was still pending. This conditionality effectively gated the FiT auction pathway.

FiT→GEAP trajectory: The FiT auction pathway foreshadowed by this circular evolved into the GEAP (DC2021-11-0036, Revised GEAP Guidelines) — a competitive auction mechanism that replaced the FiT-based expansion model for non-hydro RE.

RPS anticipation: The RPS equivalence clause (§5) predated the on-grid RPS Rules (DC2017-12-0015, December 2017) by over two years.

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