Philippine Energy Policy Wiki

Topic: Grid and Transmission

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Map of Content for the physical transmission grid: who operates and who owns it, how its expansion is planned, and the storage and interconnection assets attached to it. This page links out to existing concepts/, entities/, and programs/ pages — it moves nothing and duplicates nothing.

Belongs here: a page about the grid as infrastructure — its operator, owner, expansion plan, outage scheduling, or the storage and interconnection assets that firm it. How power is traded or contracted over that grid belongs in Topic: Power Market ; off-grid and island electrification belong in Topic: Electrification and Consumer Support .

Pages

  • National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) — the private franchise holder that operates, maintains, and expands the transmission network across all three grids as System Operator; the page to read on who runs the grid day to day.
  • National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) — the GOCC that retains ownership of the transmission assets NGCP operates under its concession agreement; the page to read on the owner/operator split behind NGCP’s franchise.
  • Transmission Development Plan (TDP) — NGCP’s DOE-approved rolling investment programme for transmission expansion, reinforcement, and interconnection; the page to read on what new transmission capacity is planned and when.
  • Smart and Green Grid Plan (SGGP) — DOE’s strategic blueprint for a modern transmission grid built to absorb clean-energy sources; the page to read on the long-range vision the TDP and smart-grid rules operationalize.
  • Smart Grid Policy Framework — the department circular setting a national digitally-enabled-grid vision, centered on the Smart Distribution Utility Roadmap for distribution utilities; the page to read on the distribution-side smart-grid mandate, as distinct from SGGP’s transmission-side blueprint.
  • Grid Operating and Maintenance Program (GOMP) — the annual planning and transparency mechanism requiring NGCP to submit a rolling multi-year schedule of planned outages for DOE approval; the page to read on planned-outage scheduling and disclosure.
  • Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) — grid-scale storage that absorbs surplus renewable generation and discharges it back, the PEP’s primary tool for managing solar and wind intermittency; the page to read on grid-side storage deployment.
  • Pumped-Storage Hydropower (PSH) — bidirectional hydro storage contracted and priced through GEAP but physically a grid storage asset like BESS; the page to read on pumped-storage projects and their settlement mechanism.
  • Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) — DOE-designated zones pairing strong renewable-resource areas with proactive transmission planning; the page to read on where transmission is being built ahead of RE development.
  • Island Grid Interconnection — backbone transmission projects linking off-grid island systems to the three main grids, retiring the missionary-generation subsidy those islands would otherwise need; the page to read on interconnection projects as transmission builds, as distinct from the off-grid subsidy they retire.
  • Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP) — the flagship project physically linking the Mindanao grid to the Visayas and, through it, the Luzon grid, toward “One Grid Philippines”; the page to read on the single largest live interconnection project.
  • Ancillary Services (AS) — services the System Operator must procure to maintain frequency, voltage, and fault-recovery capability under the Grid Code. Cross-listed on Topic: Power Market as a traded, settled market product; here it is a System Operator obligation, and the page to read on what AS the grid needs and who must supply it.

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