Published in 2023. The figures and the policy are those of the time. Ask us where it stands today.
Executive Order 21, signed on 19 April 2023, establishes a policy and administrative framework for offshore wind in the Philippines: one lead agency, one permitting process, and an instruction to the ports, the coast guard and the environment department to work to it. It follows the offshore wind roadmap published with the World Bank in April 2022, which put the country's technical potential at 178 GW and sketched a path to 21 GW installed by 2040.
Compiled in September 2026 from the releases of the time, with the revisions the agencies have published since. Nothing here is a forecast.
What was already there
By the time of the order the Department of Energy had awarded dozens of offshore wind service contracts, most of them in the year after foreign ownership was opened, together adding up to tens of gigawatts of intent. None had a turbine in the water. The order exists because the contracts were running into the same wall: a project that needs a port, a seabed lease, a grid connection and an environmental clearance from five agencies with five procedures does not get built.
What the order does
Makes the Department of Energy the lead agency and requires the others to align their procedures with it.
Directs the ports authority to identify and develop the ports a turbine supply chain needs.
Directs the transmission corporation to plan the grid for the areas the roadmap identifies, chiefly the coasts of northern Luzon and Mindoro.
The grid is the constraint
The best wind sites are far from the load. Getting gigawatts from the Ilocos coast or the Mindoro strait to Metro Manila needs transmission that does not exist, and the order can instruct the planning but not the construction. Offshore wind in the Philippines is a transmission project first.
Where the industrial reader fits
Not in the water. The relevance of offshore wind to a factory is the supply chain: foundations, towers, cables and vessels are built and serviced somewhere, and the ports the order names will need power, steam and waste handling of their own. And the price at which offshore wind eventually clears the auction is the price a large user's renewable supply will be benchmarked against.
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