Philippine Energy Policy Wiki

Topic: Renewable Energy Policy and Support

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Map of Content for renewable energy support policy: the obligations placed on suppliers, the price-support and procurement mechanisms paid to generators, the self-supply and direct-contracting options open to consumers, and the institutions administering them. This page links out to existing concepts/, entities/, and programs/ pages — it moves nothing and duplicates nothing.

Belongs here: a page about a mechanism that supports, mandates, or remunerates renewable energy. How an RE project is contracted and permitted belongs in Topic: Project Development and Permitting ; the capacity and generation-share targets themselves sit with Topic: Planning, Outlooks and Indicators ; grid integration of variable output belongs in Topic: Grid and Transmission .

Pages

  • National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) 2020-2040 — the umbrella framework adopted July 2022 coordinating every RE mechanism toward at least 35% RE by 2030 and 50% by 2040, whose PLEXOS outlook deliberately excluded storage, nuclear, and offshore wind and so functions as a floor rather than a ceiling for later plans. Cross-listed on Topic: Planning, Outlooks and Indicators as a long-range plan; here it is the programme that ties the mechanisms together, and the page to read first for how they relate.
  • Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) — the mandatory sourcing obligation on distribution utilities, directly-connected generators, and retail suppliers under RA 9513 Section 6, with the annual increment raised to 2.52% from 2023, a codified compliance formula, an off-grid track keyed to each area’s optimal supply mix, and fines reaching the tens of millions; the page to read on who must buy renewable energy and how compliance is proven.
  • Renewable Energy Market (REM) — the WESM sub-market where Renewable Energy Certificates are traded so Mandated Participants can discharge their RPS obligation, in interim commercial operations pending a REC price cap and cost-recovery mechanism. Cross-listed on Topic: Power Market as a trading venue; here it is the settlement layer of the RPS obligation, and the page to read on REC issuance, validity, and attribution.
  • Green Energy Auction Program (GEAP) — the competitive procurement that replaced administrative pricing, paying each winner its own bid under an ERC-set reserve ceiling, funded through the socialized allowance for FIT-eligible technologies and through the spot market for the rest, and satisfying a utility’s Competitive Selection Process duty; the page to read on how committed RE capacity is now procured and what each auction round delivered.
  • Green Energy Tariff (GET) — the pay-as-bid price awarded to an auction winner, capped by the reserve price, socialized through the allowance in the base case, and split into FIT and non-FIT tracks with separate indexation regimes; the page to read on how an auction award is actually priced and paid.
  • Opt-In Mechanism (GEAP) — the voluntary arrangement letting a distribution utility contract directly with an auction winner at its offered tariff, carving that capacity out of the socialized pool and taking the certificates for its own compliance; the page to read on how a utility avoids the socialized charge while meeting its obligation.
  • Pumped-Storage Hydropower (PSH) in GEAP — the bidirectional storage technology given its own capacity-based settlement because it bids on available capacity rather than energy and draws on both energy and reserve revenues, and which took the overwhelming share of GEA-3’s awarded capacity. Cross-listed on Topic: Grid and Transmission as a grid asset; here it is an auction product, and the page to read on why its settlement differs from geothermal and hydro.
  • Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) System — the RA 9513 Section 7 price support guaranteeing emerging RE a fixed above-market tariff for at least twelve years with priority connection and purchase, funded by a uniform allowance on all on-grid consumers, now largely superseded by auctions except for run-of-river hydropower; the page to read on the original support mechanism and what remains of it.
  • Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) — the statutory right of consumers at 100 kW and above to contract directly with a renewable supplier, delivered through their utility with RE content itemized on the bill, though the resulting certificates accrue to the host utility rather than the consumer; the page to read on large-consumer supplier choice and where the certificates end up.
  • Net Metering Program — the RA 9513 Section 10 scheme letting end-users up to 100 kW export surplus generation for bill credits, with capped interconnection processing, credits expiring annually rather than rolling over, and published per-feeder hosting capacities; the page to read on small-scale self-generation and its export terms.
  • Expanded Roof-Mounted Solar Program (ERSP) — the framework extending rooftop solar past the 100 kW net-metering ceiling through a contingency-only supply option, a lease-to-generate model requiring an operating contract, and restricted peer-to-peer trading among prosumers in a contiguous area; the page to read on rooftop arrangements too large or too commercial for net metering.
  • Preferential Dispatch (RE in WESM) — the two-tier priority giving intermittent renewables must-dispatch treatment regardless of price and biomass, geothermal, and impounding hydro a preference, expanded in 2022 beyond FIT-eligible plants to all RE technologies. Cross-listed on Topic: Power Market as a dispatch rule; here it is a support mechanism in kind, and the page to read on which tier a technology falls into.
  • RE Fiscal Incentives (RA 9513) — the Sections 13–18 tax and duty package for developers, equipment manufacturers, and biomass farmers, including the income tax holiday, duty-free imports, capped realty tax, and the preferential corporate rate conditioned on passing savings to end-users. Cross-listed on Topic: Project Development and Permitting as a developer election; here it is the fiscal arm of RE support, and the page to read on what each incentive is worth.
  • Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Energy Storage System Policy — the storage framework governing batteries alongside compressed-air, flywheel, and pumped-storage systems, defining permitted purposes, four compliance configurations, market registration thresholds, and a dispatch order favouring contracted ancillary services. Cross-listed on Topic: Grid and Transmission as grid infrastructure; here it is the enabler of high variable-RE shares, and the page to read on the storage volumes each scenario requires.
  • Renewable Energy Targets 2023-2050 — the generation-mix targets of at least 35% by 2030, 50% by 2040, and more thereafter, with the capacity tripling they imply and the enabling mechanisms named against them. Cross-listed on Topic: Planning, Outlooks and Indicators as a planning target; here it is the obligation these support mechanisms exist to meet, and the page to read for the numbers they are sized against.
  • Optimal Supply Mix — the least-cost generation mix for a specific off-grid or missionary area, qualifying as optimal only where simulation shows it cuts the missionary subsidy, and the anchor for off-grid RPS obligations in place of a fixed annual increment. Cross-listed on Topic: Electrification and Consumer Support for its subsidy link; here it is the off-grid compliance baseline, and the page to read on how off-grid RE minimums are set.
  • Renewable Energy Trust Fund (RETF) — the RA 9513 Section 28 special fund financing RE research, resource assessment, and promotion, with three collection channels drawing on emission fees and shares of state corporation income, deployable as grants, loans, equity, or guarantees; the page to read on how RE research and development is funded and on the operational gaps in collection.
  • National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) — the multi-stakeholder body under RA 9513 Section 27 that recommends the RPS minimum percentages, monitors NREP implementation, oversees the trust fund, and must be consulted on feed-in tariff rules and net-metering standards; the page to read on who sets the obligation levels and who must be consulted before they change.
  • Renewable Energy Management Bureau (REMB) — the DOE bureau implementing RA 9513, evaluating and issuing RE contracts, permits, and accreditations, maintaining the resource database, serving as NREB Technical Secretariat, and issuing the certificates on which fiscal-incentive entitlement depends; the page to read on which office processes an RE registration or endorsement.
  • DREAMS Project (Development for RE Applications Mainstreaming and Market Sustainability) — the closed 2016–2023 GEF and UNDP-funded project that helped produce the NREP, built local government and cooperative RE planning capacity, and established the certificate registrar platform that preceded the RE Market; the page to read on where the market’s institutional groundwork came from.

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