The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has finalized key renewable energy charges that will take effect in January 2026, the agency announced on December 12 at its Pasig City headquarters. The approved adjustments include a revised Feed-in Tariff Allowance (FIT-All) and the introduction of a Green Energy Auction Allowance (GEA-All).

Starting January, the FIT-All will be set at PHP 0.2011 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), a PHP 0.0062 per kWh drop from the current rate collected by TransCo, the ERC said.

“For the first time since the FIT implementation began, the ERC has been able to set the FIT-All rate before the year it is meant to be applied,” ERC Chairperson Francis Saturnino C. Juan said. “This demonstrates the ERC’s commitment to acting swiftly and with urgency on all filings, thereby fostering a more stable and predictable regulatory environment.”

The FIT-All is collected to fund payments to eligible renewable energy plants under the Feed-in Tariff system. During the briefing, ERC also presented fund status figures showing most payments had already been made as of early November 2025, with a smaller portion remaining outstanding.

In the same set of announcements, the ERC approved the recovery of long-pending Feed-in Tariff (FIT) rate adjustments covering 2021 to 2025, directing that these adjustments be recovered by entitled FIT-eligible plants over a five-year period starting 2026. ERC said FIT adjustments are provided under existing FIT rules that account for factors such as inflation and foreign exchange movements.

Alongside FIT-All, the Commission approved TransCo’s application to collect a Green Energy Auction Allowance (GEA-All) at PHP 0.0371 per kWh, which will also be effective on the January 2026 customer billing period. The ERC said the GEA-All will be a separate line item in electricity bills and will be charged to all on-grid end-users to fund the differential amount needed to fully pay eligible plants under the Green Energy Auction program.

The ERC also ordered key entities—including distribution utilities, retail electricity suppliers, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, and the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines—to make records available for an immediate audit of GEA-All, and directed collecting agents to remit proceeds in full within the required remittance period as well.

With FIT-All going down while GEA-All begins collection in 2026, what changes do you expect consumers to notice once these line items start appearing on monthly bills?

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