News · Company · 18 September 2026
We now publish a quarterly Philippine energy briefing
REURASIA publishes a quarterly briefing on the Philippine energy market: GDP, fuel and power prices, auctions, policy, and what each quarter meant for a plant. Four editions cover Q3 2025 to Q2 2026, every figure sourced.
We have started publishing a quarterly briefing on the Philippine energy market, and four editions are on the site today. They cover the third quarter of 2025 through to the second quarter of 2026, the period in which the domestic slowdown became visible and the March oil shock arrived on top of it.
Each edition holds the same sections: the economy, energy prices, the power sector and the auctions, the policy record, and what the quarter meant for a plant. Every figure carries its source, and where no official series exists we say so rather than estimate.
Why we compile it
We are asked the same questions by clients and partners each quarter. What did power actually cost. Where is the peso. What did the Department of Energy award, and is there anything in it for dispatchable capacity. The answers are public but scattered across the PSA, the BSP, the DOE, the ERC, IEMOP and the World Bank, and they are revised after publication. Collecting them once a quarter is cheaper for everyone than each of us doing it separately.
What is in the four editions
Third quarter 2025: growth fell to 3.9% and public construction stopped, while fuel, spot power and money were all cheap.
Fourth quarter 2025: the year closed at 4.4%, the peso set a record low, and the fourth Green Energy Auction awarded 10,195 MW with no biomass or waste-to-energy in it.
First quarter 2026: the Department of Energy set out ten years of auctions and made storage mandatory for large solar and wind, days before the oil shock.
Second quarter 2026: growth of 2.3%, inflation at a three-year high, and retail electricity 14% dearer than a year earlier with the pass-through unfinished.
The editions are filed together under the quarterly market brief. The next one follows the third-quarter national accounts in November.
A note on the retrospective editions
Three of the four were written a year after the quarter they cover, from the agencies' releases and the revisions published since. Where a figure was later revised, the revised one is used and the first estimate is named. That is stated on each page and in the briefing itself.
If you want the reading applied to your own site, rather than the market as a whole, tell us about your site and an engineer replies with the data we would need.