By: Villamor C. Visaya Jr.
(Published in its print edition on June 28 – July 4, 2025)
THE renewable energy—which can be energy from a source that is not depleted when used, such as wind or solar power, according to the Oxford Languages—would likely contribute up to 35-percent clip to the energy mix and more than 50-percent by 2040.
This development was opened up in a recent seminar-workshop on Energy Journalism: Power 101 media seminar organized by the Aboitiz Power Corp. with the Department of Energy.
Sounds promising.
In a tete-a-tete with this writer and other media participants after his presentation, Electric Power Industry Management Bureau (EPIMB) Supervising Science Research Specialist Mark Christian Marollano describes the RE projects as within the timetable.
Optimism is the key, he believes. The Philippines is within its target to increase its clean energy share to 50-percent in the power generation mix by 2040. As to the DOE’s simulation, the share of renewable energy (RE) in the country’s total power mix will reach 56.9 percent by 2040.
Of course, he emphasized that the Department of Energy is responsible for checking the development of the projects to ensure that they will put up will be built on time. Note, no delays.
In cases of delays, the DOE will intervene and somehow provide measures to address the delay of these power projects to ensure that they will be done based on their scheduled time.
So far, the DOE has received 14,624.84 megawatts (MW) of committed power projects until mid-2028 or until the end of the term of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. by June 30 noon in 2028.
The DOE announces that the country’s generation capacity by 2040 is seen at about 279.19 terawatt-hours (TWh), a sharp 150-percent increase from the 111.52 TWh capacity recorded in 2022. About 11,063.56 MW use RE technologies out of the total committed power capacity from 2025 to 2028.
Green Energy Auction-awarded power projects have secured financial closing or under construction stage, Marollano notes.
About 6,180.50 MW of committed power capacity, and about 4,339.76 MW is from RE for 2025 alone. Adding to the vibrant prospect is the battery energy storage system projects have a committed capacity of about 480 MW across the country to date, he adds.#
