Philippine Energy Policy Wiki

Topic: Project Development and Permitting

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Map of Content for the project lifecycle: how a resource right is awarded, what permits and clearances stand between award and construction, which incentives and shares attach, what safety rules bind operation, and how a plant is lawfully retired. This page links out to existing concepts/, entities/, and programs/ pages — it moves nothing and duplicates nothing.

Belongs here: a page about acquiring, permitting, building, or exiting a project. How the output is later remunerated belongs in Topic: Renewable Energy Policy and Support or Topic: Power Market ; grid connection studies and transmission planning belong in Topic: Grid and Transmission .

Pages

  • RE Contract Framework — the exclusive service or operating agreement between DOE and an RE Developer under RA 9513 Section 29, now administered under the Revised Omnibus RE Guidelines, running through Pre-Development, Declaration of Commerciality, Development, Financial Closing, and Commercial stages on a 25-year term, awarded by competitive selection over Pre-Determined Areas or by Direct Application; the page to read on which contract type a resource takes and what each stage requires.
  • RE Sector Nationality Restrictions — the foreign-equity rules as resolved by the 2022 DOJ opinion and DC2022-11-0034, which opened solar, wind, hydropower, ocean, and biomass to 100% foreign ownership while geothermal kept its 60% Filipino requirement subject to an FTAA exception for large-scale projects; the page to read on who may own what, and why the answer turns on whether a resource is exhaustible.
  • RE Fiscal Incentives (RA 9513) — the Sections 13–18 package of income tax holiday, duty-free equipment importation, capped realty tax, preferential corporate rate with its pass-on undertaking, zero-rated VAT, and priority dispatch, availed through DOE-REMB and BOI registration. Cross-listed on Topic: Renewable Energy Policy and Support as a support mechanism; here it is the developer’s election and compliance gate, and the page to read on which regime to choose and what endorsement it needs.
  • Government Share (RE Projects) — the fee an RE Developer owes for the right to develop a resource, 1% of preceding-year gross income and 1.5% for indigenous geothermal, split 60/40 between national and host local government with most of the local share subsidizing low-consumption end-users; the page to read on what the project owes government and where that money goes.
  • Energy Virtual One-Stop Shop (EVOSS) — the RA 11234 platform through which energy permits are filed across agencies, with binding per-agency timelines, deemed approval on a missed deadline, and carve-outs for DENR and ERC actions on coal, gas, and oil. Cross-listed on Topic: Institutions and Governance as a governance reform; here it is the channel a developer actually files through, and the page to read on permitting deadlines and how offshore wind was folded in.
  • Energy Investment Coordinating Council (EICC) — the EO 30 body that harmonizes approvals for Energy Projects of National Significance and issues the CEPNS, with a 30-day agency action rule and automatic issuance five working days after a lapsed deadline. Cross-listed on Topic: Institutions and Governance as an institution; here it is the fast track for large projects, and the page to read on qualifying thresholds and the CEPNS.
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) — Energy Projects — the DENR-administered clearance system classifying projects A through D, requiring an Environmental Compliance Certificate for power plants, refineries, and transmission lines, with a five-stage assessment and Multipartite Monitoring Team oversight after issuance; the page to read on whether a project needs an ECC or a Certificate of Non-Coverage and what monitoring follows.
  • Renewable Energy Safety, Health, and Environment Rules and Regulations (RESHERR) — the DOE framework binding all RE operations, with five technology-specific Codes of Practice covering geothermal well drilling and H2S, dam safety, solar arc-flash and panel disposal, wind blade and ice-throw protocols, and biomass dust-explosion and biogas safety; the page to read on the safety obligations attaching to an operating RE facility.
  • Offshore Wind (OSW) — the technology carrying the largest single lever in the Clean Energy Scenarios, enabled by EO 21’s whole-of-government permitting mandate, its implementing guidelines and administrative framework, and the opinion permitting 100% foreign equity, with 25-year service contracts over fixed-bottom and floating platforms. Cross-listed on Topic: Planning, Outlooks and Indicators for its scenario weight; here it is the contracting and permitting regime, and the page to read on how an OSW contract is obtained.
  • Waste-to-Energy (WTE) — municipal-solid-waste and biomass-waste generation treated as renewable under RA 9513, contracted by Direct Application with no competitive selection, requiring site possessory rights at application, recognized as baseload and exempt from the Competitive Selection Process; the page to read on how a WTE project is contracted and which environmental statutes it must satisfy.
  • Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) — the DOE-designated zones pairing strong solar and wind resources with proactive transmission planning, addressing the mismatch between short project build times and decade-long transmission lead times. Cross-listed on Topic: Grid and Transmission as transmission planning; here it is the spatial framework steering where development goes, and the page to read on zone designation and connected capacity.
  • Geothermal Watershed Policy — Jurisdictional History — the unresolved DENR-versus-PNOC/DOE contest over watershed management around the geothermal reservations, where EO 186 transferred jurisdiction and EO 206 expressly repealed it ten months later; the page to read on who controls a geothermal watershed and how the answer changed twice.
  • Decommissioning and Mothballing of Generating Plants — the DOE guidelines for permanent retirement and temporary deactivation across all generating technologies, with 365-day and 180-day notice periods, DOE confirmation, and automatic Certificate of Compliance termination and WESM deregistration on total mothballing. Cross-listed on Topic: Climate, Transition and Finance as the mechanism behind voluntary coal retirement; here it is the exit procedure itself, and the page to read on lawfully shutting a plant down.

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