Developers and technology providers entering the Philippines
Local execution partner for permitting, site validation, construction and long-term operation in the Philippines.
The problem
A pipeline or a technology needs Philippine execution: sites, permits, construction and an operator who is still there years after commissioning.
The permitting path runs through the DOE, ERC, DENR, BOI and NGCP, and each has its own clock.
A partner who leaves at financial close leaves the developer holding the construction risk alone.
What usually applies
- A partner qualification memo as the first step: who controls site, feedstock, technology, capital and offtake, and what the near-term milestone is.
- A defined role afterwards: origination, feasibility, permitting, EPC or O&M, agreed in writing.
- Site, waste and offtake validation on the ground before a term sheet is written.
What usually does not
- Open-ended alliances without a named milestone. They cost both sides a year.
- Representing a technology we have not operated. We say which ones we have.
A reference from this sector
HDF Philippines
Green hydrogen power plants, grid and feasibility studies
- Scope
- grid and feasibility studies, 10 MWe Marinduque and 12 x 10 MWe Manila
- Period
- 2024 to 2025
- Also
- Chodai 5 MWe cogeneration basic engineering, 2024; European Union 6 MWe biomass due diligence, 2022
The questions we ask first
- 1.Which of site, feedstock, technology, capital and offtake do you control today?
- 2.What is the next milestone, and what date is attached to it?
- 3.Has the project been screened against the DOE and ERC process?
- 4.What role do you need filled: origination, feasibility, permitting, EPC or O&M?
- 5.Who decides on your side, and when?
Have these to hand and the first conversation produces a number. Talk to an engineer.
Tell us about your site
What the site produces, what you pay to dispose of it, and what you pay for energy. An engineer reads it and comes back with the first step.