Renewables supplied 42.9% of Philippine electricity in 2000 and 23.3% in 2025 — while renewable generation itself nearly doubled. Demand outran it. Coal took the difference.
The renewable share fell by 19.6 points in twenty-five years while renewable output rose 28.7 TWh from 19.4. Both are true. Quoting either one alone gets the country wrong.
Before any share can be read, the denominator has to be visible. The Philippines generates roughly three times the electricity it did in 2000, and every share on this page moves against that.
From 45.3 TWh in 2000.
Demand roughly tripled in twenty-five years.
Up from 19.4 TWh — 1.5 times as much renewable electricity, and a smaller share of a much larger total.
This is the finding the earlier version of this page missed by charting only coal. The renewable share did not stall — it fell, by nearly twenty points, from a base that was already largely hydro and geothermal.
Large hydro and geothermal, before the coal build-out.
A fall of 19.6 points.
Renewable generation nearly doubled over the same period. The share fell because coal absorbed almost all of the demand growth, not because renewables shrank.
All 8 fuels Ember tracks, latest year. The composition is unusual for the region: geothermal is larger than hydro, and larger than solar and wind combined by a wide margin.
Up from 27.0% in 2005.
Ember files Philippine geothermal here. It is the second-largest renewable source and larger than hydro.
Combined. Solar 2.44% and wind 1.19% — the technologies that grew fastest elsewhere are still marginal here.
Coal share for the Philippines and its neighbours at 2025. The gap is not marginal.
Coal share of generation in 2025.
The Philippines runs 3.3 times as much coal, proportionally.
Almost none — a gas grid, and a reminder that "Southeast Asian" is not a single energy story.
Meralco's all-in residential rate, for the 15 of 93 months that could be retrieved. The advisories are published per month and older ones fall off the site, so this is a window rather than a series.
Per kWh, all-in.
A spread of P2.57 across 15 months.
15 of 93 months. The chart plots only months that exist; it does not interpolate across the 78 that do not.
Generation mix and one distributor's residential rate. That is less than the topic deserves, and the gaps are specific.
Meralco serves Metro Manila and nearby provinces. Every other distribution utility and every electric cooperative sets its own rate, and ERC publishes those in filings rather than as a series. Nothing here speaks to what the rest of the country pays.
15 of 93 months were found — 16%. The advisory pages are published per month and older ones fall off. The chart draws only the months that exist and the gaps are visible rather than bridged.
Fuel costs, capacity auctions, the WESM spot market and the regulatory rate base all sit behind this and none are in these CSVs. The page reports what the mix and the rate did, not what drove them.
Two fetchers and one derive step over five CSVs.
Ember compiles national statistics into a comparable series, which is what makes the ASEAN comparison possible at all. It is a secondary source and the citation says so.
Ember files it under "other renewables" for the Philippines. It is labelled on the page rather than silently folded into a renewables total, because for this country specifically that bucket is mostly one technology.
ph_generation_mix.csv had a column named source holding the energy source — Coal, Gas, Solar — colliding with this repository's convention that source is provenance. It is now fuel, with provenance in source_dataset.
The renewable/fossil rollup fails loudly on an unclassified fuel rather than letting it drop out of both totals, which would leave the shares summing to less than 100 without erroring.
The all-in residential rate is taken from the overall-rate sentence in each advisory. An earlier version matched the generation charge instead — about P7-8 against a real P13-15 — and was caught by an overlap check, because consecutive advisories cover the same month twice and disagreed.
Every figure on this page is bound to a query in facts.sql and re-checked on each build.
Every figure on this page traces to one of these, through a CSV in
data/ph-electricity/. Each is checked against its source query on every
build.
Generation by fuel and coal share, Philippines and Southeast Asian peers, 2000 onward — Ember compiles national statistics into a comparable series
Monthly all-in residential rate per kWh — Published monthly by the distribution utility; parsed from advisory pages