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  • Philippine energy market, second quarter 2026Market brief

    The oil shock of March and April slowed growth to 2.3%, took inflation to a three-year high of 7.2% and reversed the easing cycle, while the peso reached a record monthly average. Retail electricity is 14% dearer than a year ago and the pass-through is not finished. The quarterly market brief for April to June 2026.

    5 September 2026 · 5 min read

  • Philippine energy market, first quarter 2026Market brief

    Growth slowed to 2.8% and spot power was at its cheapest of the year, then the oil shock took inflation to 4.1% in March. In February the Department of Energy set out ten years of auctions and made storage mandatory for large solar and wind. A retrospective edition covering January to March 2026.

    20 May 2026 · 3 min read

  • Philippine energy market, fourth quarter 2025Market brief

    The year closed at 3.0% growth and 4.4% for 2025, investment down 10.9%, the peso at a record low and the policy rate at 4.50%. The fourth Green Energy Auction awarded 10,195 MW, none of it biomass or waste-to-energy. A retrospective edition covering October to December 2025.

    20 February 2026 · 2 min read

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  • The 2025 policy record, in one pageEnergy policy

    Five rate cuts to 4.50%, growth of 4.4% for the year, the third auction round awarded with 6,677 MW, the biodiesel blend at 4%, and the fourth round prepared. What 2025 settled and what it left open.

    9 December 2025 · 2 min read

  • Philippine energy market, third quarter 2025Market brief

    Growth fell to 3.9%, the lowest in more than four years, as public construction stopped. Fuel, spot power and money were all cheap, and inflation stayed below the target band. A retrospective edition of the quarterly market brief, covering July to September 2025.

    20 November 2025 · 3 min read

  • Piggery waste and the scale question for biogasBiogas

    Pig manure is the most digested residue in the Philippines and the one most often digested badly. The tank is easy; the size, the water and the use of the gas are what decide whether a farm's digester is a plant or a lagoon with a cover.

    21 October 2025 · 2 min read

  • Poultry litter as a boiler fuelBiomass

    A broiler farm produces litter that is part manure, part bedding and mostly a disposal problem. It burns, at a heating value near a poor lignite, and its ash is a phosphate fertiliser. What a litter-fired plant involves.

    16 September 2025 · 2 min read

  • Philippine energy market, second quarter 2025Market brief

    Growth of 5.5%, inflation at 1.4% in June, a second rate cut to 5.25%, and the third Green Energy Auction awarded 6,677 MW, almost all of it pumped storage.

    20 August 2025 · 2 min read

  • Landfill gas at a Philippine sanitary landfillBiogas

    Half of what goes into a Philippine landfill is organic, and it decomposes into a gas that is roughly half methane. The 2000 law requires the gas to be controlled; whether it is burned in an engine or a flare is the operator's decision.

    22 July 2025 · 2 min read

  • Refuse-derived fuel and the cement kilnWaste-to-energy

    A cement kiln burns at temperatures that destroy what a boiler cannot, and the environment department has permitted co-processing since 2010. Sorted, dried municipal and industrial waste is the fuel, and plastic packaging obligations are the supply.

    24 June 2025 · 2 min read

  • Philippine energy market, first quarter 2025Market brief

    Growth of 5.4% and inflation down to 1.8% by March, the lowest in nearly five years, with the first rate cut of the year in April.

    20 May 2025 · 2 min read

  • Pellets: a residue that travelsBiomass

    Loose husk or sawdust is too light to move far. Pressed into pellets it has six times the density and a stable moisture content, and it can be shipped to a boiler anywhere. What a pellet plant does and who buys from it.

    22 April 2025 · 2 min read

  • The fourth auction round: solar, wind and storage in one bidSolar

    The fourth Green Energy Auction offers solar and wind paired with battery storage, so that the capacity contracted can deliver into the evening. What changes when the auction buys firm renewable power.

    11 March 2025 · 2 min read

  • Philippine energy market, fourth quarter 2024Market brief

    The year closed at 5.6% growth and 3.2% average inflation, with a third rate cut to 5.75% and the peso back at its record low of 59 to the dollar.

    20 February 2025 · 2 min read

  • The Philippine Energy Plan to 2050Energy policy

    The plan that runs to 2050 keeps the 35% renewable share for 2030 and 50% for 2040, adds nuclear from 2032, and counts efficiency as supply. What it changes for a site, and what it does not.

    28 January 2025 · 2 min read

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