Twenty-five gigawatts. That is the minimum new renewable capacity the Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) intends to put up for competitive bidding. The 10-year Green Energy Auction Program runs through annual rounds beginning this year, with project deliveries starting as early as 2027 and continuing to 2035.
The 25 GW runs to 2035, not 2030, although some coverage ties it to the earlier deadline. The DOE says the pipeline supports national targets of a 35 percent renewable share by 2030 and 50 percent by 2040. Enerdata puts renewables’ current share of generation at 21%. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, citing the DOE, gives 25 percent. The gap to 35% is wide on either measure.
The schedule was presented on 13 February by Marissa Cerezo, director of the DOE’s Renewable Energy Management Bureau, at an investment forum in Bonifacio Global City. For delivery in 2027 to 2028 the DOE targets at least 3,200 MW of solar outside floating projects, plus 85 MW of rooftop solar in the Visayas and Mindanao. Another 5,565 MW or so is slated for 2028 to 2035.
The program is not new. Launched in 2022, the Green Energy Auction (GEA) is a competitive bidding scheme for private investors. Its latest completed round, GEA-4, awarded 10.2 GW in November 2025. The GEA-4 awards covered solar, wind and storage. GEA-5, for offshore wind, opened that same month.
The four rounds still to come, GEA-6 to GEA-9, were originally set for 2026 and 2027. In the February plan, GEA-6 covers onshore wind and floating solar, and GEA-7 covers rooftop solar and solar paired with battery storage. GEA-8 brings solar on stilts, agrisolar and canal-top solar, each run jointly with a partner agency. GEA-9 is to cover biomass, geothermal, solar, hydropower and onshore wind.
GEA-7 has moved furthest. In April the DOE said it would offer capacity nationwide, with an allocation in Mindanao, in the southern Philippines, roughly five times what earlier rounds offered. All ground-mounted solar projects must include battery energy storage. The terms of reference now published for the round describe an auction for ground-mounted solar, roof-mounted solar and run-of-river hydro in Mindanao. BusinessWorld reported in July that the government hoped to offer 120 MW of run-of-river hydro, with delivery from 2028 to 2030. The DOE held a focus group on the draft terms on 27 July.
Other rounds are taking shape too. The DOE has said a future round will cover off-grid areas served by the state-run National Power Corporation, seeking renewables with batteries to replace diesel plants. Separately, a draft memorandum with the Department of Agriculture has been reviewed for an agrivoltaics and aquavoltaics auction, now slated as GEA-9. That differs from the February plan, which placed those formats in GEA-8.
Not every megawatt has found a buyer. GEA-4 did not fully secure its target capacity, and the unsubscribed floating solar has been folded into GEA-7. How much of it developers will take up is not yet known.
