Philippine Energy Policy Wiki

MOC: Topics

Map of Content for the subject taxonomy over wiki/pages/ — the entry point that lets a reader ask “what do we have on the power market” without already knowing whether the answer is a concepts/, entities/, or programs/ page. It links out to those existing pages; it moves nothing and does not duplicate their content. Each topic below carries a ## Pages section listing every page that belongs to that subject.

How to read this taxonomy

All eleven topics are live, and together they cover every page under concepts/, entities/, and programs/ — no synthesis page sits outside the taxonomy. A page may appear on two topics where both readings are genuine, and the framing differs on each: concepts/ancillary-services reads as a traded market product on Topic: Power Market and as a System Operator obligation on Topic: Grid and Transmission . Neither position is primary; the order topics appear in carries no ranking.

A question often crosses two topics — how a renewable project is permitted and how its output is paid for sit apart, as do a plan’s targets and the mechanisms meeting them. Compare the question against every entry and open all that materially overlap. Each topic page opens with a Belongs here note that says what it covers and points at the neighbouring topic for the cases it does not.

Topics

The market and the grid

  • Topic: Power Market — Power Market. Map of Content for the WESM trading and contracting layer — the spot market, retail competition and open access, and the bilateral, interim, and reserve mechanisms that price and settle power outside it. Covers the Competitive Selection Process that ties captive-market procurement to competitively bid PSAs, the REC trading venue for the renewable portfolio obligation, and the lifeline tariff carried as market policy. Gathers the pages on who trades power, on what terms, and how a market participant is compensated or obligated.
  • Topic: Grid and Transmission — Grid and Transmission. Map of Content for the transmission grid itself and the assets and plans that keep it running — NGCP’s operating franchise and TransCo’s underlying ownership, the rolling Transmission Development Plan, the Smart and Green Grid Plan and the standalone smart-grid policy, the Grid Operating and Maintenance Program’s outage transparency, and the storage and interconnection projects — BESS, pumped-storage hydropower, CREZ, and the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection — that expand or firm it. Gathers the pages on grid infrastructure, planned outages, and how storage or new transmission capacity gets built.

Supply and how it gets built

  • Topic: Renewable Energy Policy and Support — Renewable Energy Policy and Support. Map of Content for the RA 9513 renewable energy regime and the mechanisms that pay for, oblige, or enable renewable generation — the Renewable Portfolio Standards and the certificate market that discharges them, the Green Energy Auction Program with its pay-as-bid tariff, opt-in channel, and pumped-storage settlement, the feed-in tariff it superseded, net metering and the expanded roof-mounted solar options, the green energy option for large consumers, must-dispatch and priority dispatch, fiscal incentives, storage policy, the RE Trust Fund, the NREP umbrella programme and its 2030 and 2040 targets, and the NREB and REMB that administer all of it. Gathers the pages on how renewable output is remunerated, mandated, and counted.
  • Topic: Project Development and Permitting — Project Development and Permitting. Map of Content for the path an energy project takes from award to operation and eventually to exit — the RE Contract framework and its service-versus- operating split, the nationality rules that opened most RE resources to full foreign ownership while geothermal stayed restricted, the government share and fiscal incentives a developer elects between, EVOSS and EICC permitting with their deemed-approval deadlines, DENR’s Environmental Impact Assessment, the RESHERR safety codes, offshore wind and waste-to-energy contracting, the CREZ spatial framework, and the decommissioning and mothballing rules that govern plant retirement. Gathers the pages on what a developer must obtain, in what order, and on what terms.
  • Topic: Fuels — Fuels. Map of Content for the fuels the Philippines burns, imports, and contracts for — the depleting Malampaya gas field and the LNG imports positioned to replace it, the RA 12120 downstream natural gas framework and its PDNGI permit tracks, the deregulated downstream oil industry, upstream coal and petroleum service contracts, the coal moratorium and voluntary plant retirement, the biofuels blending mandate, emerging hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel, PNOC as state oil company, the upstream petroleum task force, and EITI revenue transparency. Gathers the pages on where fuel comes from, who may supply it, and what governs its extraction and sale.
  • Topic: Nuclear Energy — Nuclear Energy. Map of Content for nuclear power in Philippine energy policy — the Nuclear Energy Program’s IAEA milestone track toward first commercial capacity by 2032, the independent safety regulator PhilATOM created by RA 12305, the inter-agency bodies that plan the programme and drafted the National Position, the research institute whose regulatory mandate was transferred away, and the Philippines–US 123 Agreement that opens access to US nuclear vendors. Gathers the pages on who licenses a nuclear facility, who plans the programme, and which instruments must be in force before construction.

Demand, access, and efficiency

  • Topic: Electrification and Consumer Support — Electrification and Consumer Support. Map of Content for extending electricity service to unserved households and cushioning those who cannot pay full cost — the National Total Electrification Roadmap’s 100%-by-2028 target, the missionary electrification framework and the universal charge that subsidizes it, microgrid providers and island-grid interconnection as the two graduation paths, the small grid system operator rule, the lifeline rate for marginalized end-users, host-community benefit sharing under ER 1-94, NEA and NPC as implementing arms, and the BARMM bodies governing the region with the lowest electrification rate. Gathers the pages on who is still unserved, who pays to reach them, and how a subsidized area eventually stops needing the subsidy.
  • Topic: Energy Efficiency and Clean Transport — Energy Efficiency and Clean Transport. Map of Content for demand-side energy policy under RA 11285 and the electric vehicle transition under RA 11697 — the Energy Efficiency and Conservation framework and its Designated Establishment duties, the ESCOs that deliver guaranteed savings, the PELP appliance and VFELP vehicle labeling schemes, the Government Energy Management Program binding agencies and LGUs, the IAEECC and EUMB that run and enforce all of it, energy intensity as the metric of record, and the CREVI roadmap with its EV fleet and charging targets. Gathers the pages on reducing consumption per unit of output and on electrifying transport.

Planning, governance, and the transition

  • Topic: Planning, Outlooks and Indicators — Planning, Outlooks and Indicators. Map of Content for the Philippine Energy Plan’s projections and the measured indicators they start from — the ARC Framework organizing the plan, the 2022 situationer and generation-mix baselines, the Reference Scenario against the two Clean Energy Scenarios that differ only in offshore wind, and the metrics of record: total final energy consumption, energy intensity, import dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy targets, and the investment and employment each pathway requires. Gathers the pages on what the plans project, on what assumptions, and how progress is measured.
  • Topic: Institutions and Governance — Institutions and Governance. Map of Content for the bodies that make, regulate, and adjudicate Philippine energy policy and the procedural rules they work under — DOE as policy and planning department against ERC as independent tariff regulator, PSALM’s privatization and Universal Charge mandate winding toward its 2026 corporate expiry, PCC’s primary jurisdiction over competition, the statutory research institute PERPI, the inter-agency permitting bodies EICC and EVOSS, the DOE’s own rules of adjudicative procedure, the autonomous energy powers of BARMM, and Philippine engagement in ASEAN energy cooperation. Gathers the pages on who holds which mandate, and how a matter is decided or appealed.
  • Topic: Climate, Transition and Finance — Climate, Transition and Finance. Map of Content for the climate obligations driving Philippine energy policy and the money meant to meet them — the Nationally Determined Contribution and the emissions baseline behind it, the LCCDR framework treating adaptation as the anchor with mitigation following, the Clean Energy Scenarios and the transition programme carrying them, coal retirement through the Energy Transition Mechanism and carbon and transition credits, the sustainable finance architecture built by central bank circulars and the CEFI roadmap, disaster risk financing and the energy resiliency framework, the investment each pathway requires, and the Climate Change Commission, DENR, and disaster council that hold the mandates. Gathers the pages on what the Philippines has committed to, what it would cost, and who pays.

For LLM readers: each topic page’s ## Pages section is the definitive list of pages on that topic — a top-level bullet that starts with a wikilink is part of that list; entries in related:, the Up: footer, and links inside prose are not. These pages hold no findings of their own, so follow a link before citing anything from one.