Power Policy Brief

Achieving reliable and affordable electricity has been a constant challenge for the Philippines. While the country no longer experiences the extremely low levels in the power supply that marked the early 90s, much still has to be done in order to address the rising electricity demands of a fast-growing economy. The World Economic Fund’s Global Competitiveness Report 2019 shows the rise in the country’s ranking in terms of the quality of power supply, overtaking Vietnam and Indonesia. Despite this, the country experienced yellow and red alerts in the summer of 2019.