Changelog

13 Oct 2025

Support for The Philippines dispatch scenarios

03 Oct 2025

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	Technology specific, calibrated based on historical generation levels, and then linearly reduced to zero by 2035	Bronze
Planned outages / Availability	Technology specific, calibrated based on historical generation, and 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

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​Data sourcing table

Changelog

Model scope

Capacity Expansion

Dispatch

Data sourcing table