The Department of Energy (DOE) is optimistic the Philippines will hit its target to increase to 50 percent the share of clean energy in the power generation mix by 2040.

The share of renewable energy (RE) in the country’s total power mix will exceed the 2040 target and even reach 56.9 percent, based on the DOE’s simulation, Electric Power Industry Management Bureau (EPIMB) Supervising Science Research Specialist Mark Christian Marollano said Tuesday during the Power 101 media seminar organized by Aboitiz Power Corp., in coordination with the DOE.

Marollano said the country’s generation capacity by 2040 is seen at about 279.19 terawatt-hours (TWh), a 150 percent increase from the 111.52 TWh capacity in 2022.

The Marcos administration eyes RE to contribute 35 percent to the energy mix by 2030 and 50 percent by 2040.

Marollano said 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.

Of the total committed power capacity from 2025 to 2028, about 11,063.56 MW use RE technologies, he said.

Committed power projects have already secured firm financial closing, in the construction stage, or Green Energy Auction-awarded projects.

For 2025 alone, there are about 6,180.50 MW of committed power capacity, and about 4,339.76 MW is from RE, Marollano said.

On top of this, battery energy storage system projects have a committed capacity of about 480 MW across the country to date.

"The Department of Energy is responsible for checking the development of these projects to ensure that they will enter on time; they will not have delays. And if there is a delay, there is a time that the DOE will intervene and somehow provide measures to address the delay of these power projects to ensure that they will enter on time based on their scheduled time," he added. 

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