Overhead cranes are widely used in power plants. When Dongqi Crane sold various types of cranes to the Philippines, it found that Philippine customers have a wide range of needs for electric hoists. As a kind of light lifting equipment, electric hoist has a very high cost perFormance in various material handling. In recent years, with the Philippines’ efforts in various infrastructure construction, Dongqi Crane’s sales in the Philippines have increased every year. This article will sort out a series of policies of the Philippines on coal-fired power generation projects in recent years, and provide a reference for the customized lifting equipment of Philippine power plant customers.

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Coal-fired power generation has long been an important source of power generation in the Philippines. According to the Philippine Department of Energy, in 2019, coal-fired power generation accounted for 54.6% of the total power generation in the Philippines, an increase of 2.5 percentage points from 2018. As of the end of 2019, the installed capacity and reliable capacity of coal-fired power plants accounted for 40.8% and 42.9% of the total, respectively. However, coal-fired power generation in the Philippines faces a series of problems and challenges, such as rising demand for green development, high dependence on coal imports, decreasing cost advantages, and increasing difficulty in international financing.

In recent years, the Philippine government has introduced a series of bills and policies to support the development of renewable energy, including the Biofuels Act (2006), the Renewable Energy Act (200 and the Climate Change Act (2009). Since 2012, the feed-in tariff for renewable energy has been implemented. In 2016, the Philippine Department of Energy issued the “2017-2040 Energy Development Plan”, which stated that the development of green space in power plants in the Philippines for more than 20 years will focus on renewable energy. After the transition in 2018 and 2019, the Renewable Energy Quota Standard (RPS) was officially implemented in 2020, requiring that the proportion of renewable energy power generation in the total annual power generation must increase by at least 1 percentage point, which will also become the Philippine Department of Energy. It is an important reference condition for the approval of the projects of various power development enterprises with the Electric Power Regulatory Commission. At the end of 2019, the Philippines established a renewable energy certificate trading market platForm, through which all electricity market participants can trade relevant certificates to meet the statutory requirements of renewable energy quota standards.

On June 5, 2020, the Philippine Congressional Climate Change Committee passed House Resolution 761, which includes not allowing any new coal-fired power plants. Since then, Philippine Minister of Energy Cousy and Chairman of the Philippine National Renewable Energy Commission Dimaranta have all stated that they will consider giving priority to the development of renewable energy projects and loosen restrictions on foreign investment in this field. On October 27th, at the Global Ministerial Conference on Renewable Energy System Integration, Cousy officially announced the suspension of approval of applications for new coal-fired power plants (approved coal-fired power plant projects will not be affected), and began to gradually liberalize from geothermal projects Renewable energy foreign investment restrictions.

Cousy emphasized that in the Department of Energy’s circular signed on October 20, the relevant guidelines for the third open competitive Selection process (OCSP3) in the award of renewable energy service contracts, including allowing foreign investors in large geothermal Full ownership in exploration, development and utilization projects (projects with an investment greater than US$50 million). Foreign investors can carry out large-scale natural resource exploration, development and utilization by entering into a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) with the Philippine government and signed and approved by the President. The Philippine Department of Energy will accelerate the development of local resources and promote the transition from fossil fuel-based resource utilization technologies to clean energy.

Crane Industry Observation: Policy Trends of Philippine Coal-fired Power Plant Projects