The Philippines has fallen behind its Asian neighbors in terms of energy access as measured by electricity consumption and electrification rate. Renewable energy, however, has a relatively high share in the generation mix but this has remained stagnant in the past two decades. Meanwhile, the...

In order to address the challenges of energy security and climate change, the Philippines enacted the Renewable Energy (RE) Act of 2008 to promote renewable energy. The Philippine Feed-In Tariff (FiT) policy was designed to provide a guaranteed fixed price to RE investors for a period of twenty...

After ratifying the Paris Agreement in March 2017, the Philippine Government reviewed its Nationally Determined Contribution that was submitted in October, 2015. This resulted in a revised NDC that was communicated to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 15 April...