Philippine Power Outlook: Reviewing the Adequacy of Power Supply for April to June 2025

Despite contributing just 0.48% of global emissions, the Philippines faces severe climate impacts. This ACT2025 brief highlights the country’s evolving mitigation efforts, energy transition priorities, and the need for just, community-centered solutions aligned with national development goals—underscoring the urgency for global support and stronger climate ambition.

This study explores ways to improve coordination and communication among transmission system operators involved in the Lao-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project. Drawing on global best practices, it recommends real-time power flow platforms and streamlined procedures to enhance reliability, reduce delays, and support regional electricity trading under the ASEAN energy cooperation plan.

Accelerating renewable electricity deployment is vital for Indonesia’s net zero goals. This report recommends a regulated joint transmission network utilisation scheme to unlock private investment, enable corporate renewables procurement, and support PLN’s grid plans—positioning Indonesia competitively alongside regional peers like Vietnam and Malaysia in the clean energy transition.

The report analyzes methane emissions in ASEAN’s oil and gas sector, revealing critical gaps in data, monitoring, and policy. It showcases early action by NOCs like Pertamina and Petronas and introduces HORIZONS—a new regional platform for methane mitigation. With actionable insights, it calls for stronger coordination to make methane reduction central to ASEAN’s clean energy transition.

The Guide for Cross-Border Electricity Sales (CBES) serves as a comprehensive guide or framework in advancing ASEAN’s regional energy integration, facilitating power trade between Peninsular Malaysia and neighbouring countries, specifically Singapore and Thailand. The guide establishes two distinct schemes: the CBES Scheme, which governs non-renewable electricity exports, and the CBES RE Scheme, which enables the cross-border trade of renewable energy. Each scheme has its own set of regulatory requirements, infrastructure needs, and market mechanisms in shaping Malaysia’s role as an electricity exporter in the region.