Changelog
Support for The Philippines dispatch scenarios
The Philippines 1-node and 3-node model added to Scenario Builder
Model scope
Capacity Expansion
- Base year: 2023
- End year: 2050
- Spatial resolution:
- National (1-node)
- Regional (3-nodes):
- Luzon (GRIDREGION-PHL-LU)
- Visayas (GRIDREGION-PHL-VI)
- Mindanao (GRIDREGION-PHL-MI)
- Temporal resolution:
- Low resolution (24-hourly and yearly) - 1 Timeslice
- Medium resolution (3-hourly and 3-monthly) - 32 Timeslices
Dispatch
- Spatial resolution:
- National (1-node)
- Regional (3-nodes):
- Luzon (GRIDREGION-PHL-LU)
- Visayas (GRIDREGION-PHL-VI)
- Mindanao (GRIDREGION-PHL-MI)
- Temporal resolution:
- High resolution (hourly and single year) - 8760 timesteps
- Available for single years between 2023-2050
Data sourcing table
| Input variable | Data source | Data standard |
|---|---|---|
| Demand profiles - current | IEMOP (load profile from 2023) | Gold |
| Demand profiles - future | Same profile assumed for all future years | Bronze |
| Annual demand - current | IEMOP | Gold |
| Annual demand - future | Philippines Power Development Plan, Transition Zero in-house methodology | Bronze |
| Renewable profiles - current | TransitionZero in-house methodology (https://www.transitionzero.org/insights/from-vision-to-voltage-with-tz-apg) | Silver |
| Renewable profiles - future | Shape of the renewable profiles does not change in the future. | Bronze |
| Renewable potentials | TransitionZero in-house methodology (https://www.transitionzero.org/insights/from-vision-to-voltage-with-tz-apg) | Bronze |
| Technology costs - current | Indonesia Technology Catalogue by Danish Energy Agency and The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resource, VietNam Technology Catalogue by Danish Energy Agency, and The 8th ASEAN Energy Outlook by ASEAN Center of Energy | Silver |
| Technology costs - future | Indonesia Technology Catalogue by Danish Energy Agency and The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resource, VietNam Technology Catalogue by Danish Energy Agency, and The 8th ASEAN Energy Outlook by ASEAN Center of Energy | Silver |
| Interconnector technology costs - current | TransitionZero in-house methodology (https://www.transitionzero.org/insights/from-vision-to-voltage-with-tz-apg) | Silver |
| Interconnector technology costs - future | TransitionZero in-house methodology (https://www.transitionzero.org/insights/from-vision-to-voltage-with-tz-apg) | Silver |
| Commodity costs - current | TransitionZero in-house methodology (https://www.transitionzero.org/insights/from-vision-to-voltage-with-tz-apg) | Silver |
| Commodity costs - future | TransitionZero in-house methodology (https://www.transitionzero.org/insights/from-vision-to-voltage-with-tz-apg) | Silver |
| Domestic interconnector capacity data - current | Global Transmission Database, NGCP | Silver |
| Domestic interconnector capacity data - future | TransitionZero in-house methodology (https://www.transitionzero.org/insights/from-vision-to-voltage-with-tz-apg) | Silver |
| Ramp up and ramp down | Default, technology-specific | Bronze |
| Efficiency / Losses | Danish Energy Agency and The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia | Gold |
| Minimum generation level | Default, technology-specific | Bronze |
| Planned outages / Availability | NREL ATB 2024 | Bronze |
| Discount rate | Default (5%) | Bronze |
| Reserve margin | Default (20%) | Bronze |
| WACC | IEA Cost of Capital Observatory | Bronze |
| Power plant data (location, capacity, fuel, technology, start year, end year) | Data served as initial and planned capacities from 2023 to 2050. This data is curated and validated by TransitionZero. The base dataset is from Global Energy Monitor with enhancements from “additional asset sources”. See the following: Aboitiz Power, Aboitiz Power Corporation, Business World, Department of Energy, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Energy Development Corporation, Raslag Corp. | Gold |