This page was originally seeded by files from this post by jcmiras. The intent of this page is that others can add to the collection. A number of files have already been added. The DOE is maintaining as listing of Laws and Issuances which has some Departmental Orders and Circulars not maintained below.

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1936

• Commonwealth Act No. 146 - An Act to Reorganize the Public Service Commission, Prescribe its Powers and Duties, Define and Regulate Public Services, Provide and Fix the Rates and Quota of Expenses to be Paid by the Same, and for other Purposes.

 

1938

• Commonwealth Act No. 349 – An Act Creating a Standardizing Laboratory to Carry Out the Provisions of the Public Service Act on Meter Testing and Providing Funds Therefore.

 

1949

• RA 387 - An Act to promote the Exploration, Development, exploitation, and Utilization of the Petroleum Resources of the Philippines; To encourage the Conservation of Such Petroleum Resources; To Authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources to Create and Administration Unit And Technical Board in the Bureau of Mines; To Appropriate Funds Therefore; and For Other Purposes.

 

1972

• PD 40 - Establishing Basic Policies for the Electric Power Industry
• PD 87 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 8 Issued on October 2, 1972, and Promulgating an Amended Act to Promote the Discovery and Production of Indigenous Petroleum and Appropriate Funds Therefor.

 

1973

• PD 269 - Act elevating the National Electrification Administration to a wholly-owned government corporation

 

1977

• PD 1128 - Further Amending Republic Act Numbered Six Thousand One Hundred Seventy-Three, as Amended Otherwise Known as the Oil Industry Commission Act
• PD 1206 - Creating the Department of Energy
• RA 6173 - An Act Declaring a National Policy on the Petroleum Industry, regulating the activities and Relations of Persons and Entities Engaged Therein, Establishing an Oil Industry Commission to Effective and Same, and Defining Its Functions, Powers and Objectives, and For Other Purposes.

 

1978

• PD 1573 - Amending Presidential Decree no. 1206 Creating the Department of Energy

 

1979

• Batas Pambansa Blg. 33 - An Act Defining and Penalizing Certain Prohibiting Acts inimical to the Public Interest and National Security Involving Petroleum and/or Petroleum Products, Prescribing Penalties Therefor and for other Purposes
• PD 1645 - Amending PD 269 re National Electrification Administration

 

1980

• PD 1700 - Granting the Board of Energy to Regulate and Fix the Rates of Pipeline Concessionaires and Amending for that Purpose Section 9 of Presidential Decree No. 1206
• PD 1722 - Creating the National Coal Authority Defining its Powers and Functions, Providing Funds Thereof, and For Other Purposes.

 

1983

• PD 1865 - Amending Batas Pambansa Bilang 33, Entitled “Act Defining and Penalizing Certain Prohibiting Acts inimical to the Public Interest and National Security Involving Petroleum and/or Petroleum Products, Prescribing Penalties Therefor and for other Purposes”, By Including Short Selling and Adulteration of Petroleum and Petroleum Products and Other Acts in the Definition of prohibited Acts Increasing the Penalties Therein, and For Other Purposes.

 

1984

• PD 1956 - Imposing An Ad Valorem Tax on Certain Manufactured Oils and other Fuels; Bunker Fuel Oil and Diesel Fuel Oil; Revising the Rates of Specific Tax Therefor; Abolishing the Oil Industry Special Fund; and for Other Purposes.

 

1987

• EO 137 - Expanding the sources and Utilization of the Oil Price Stabilization Fund (OPSF) by Amending Presidential Decree No. 1956
• EO 172 - Creating The Energy Regulatory Board
• EO 193 - Providing for the Reorganization of the Office of Energy Affairs and For other Purposes
• EO 215 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 40 and Allowing the Private Sector to Generate Electricity

 

1989

• ER 1-95 - Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of EO 215

 

1991

• RA 7156 - An Act Granting Incentives to Mini-Hydro-Electric Power Developers

 

1992

• IRRs for RA 7156
• RA 7638 - Department of Energy Act of 1992

 

1993

• EO 86 - Fixing the Rate of Return of Rate Base of the National Power Corporation at Twelve Percent of the Rate Base as Defined in Section 4 of the Republic Act No. 6395, as Amended.
• RA 7648 - An Act Prescribing Urgent Related Measures Necessary and Proper to Effectively Address the Electric Power Crisis and For Other Purposes.

 

1994

• RA 7832 - An Act Penalizing the Pilferage of Electricity and Theft of Electric power Transmission/ Materials, Rationalizing System Losses by Phasing Out Pilferage Losses as a Component Thereof and for other purposes.
• RA 7718 - Philippine BOT Law

 

1995

• ERB Resolution NO. 95-21re Rules and Regulations Governing Operation of Public Services

 

1996

• RA 8180 - An Act Deregulating the Downstream Oil Industry, and for other Purposes

 

1997

• EO 392 - Declaring Full Deregulation of the Downstream Oil Industry

 

1998

• RA 8479 - Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998
• EO 471 - Declaring Full Deregulation of the Downstream Oil Industry
• EO 473 - Providing for the Segregation and Unbundling of Electrical Power Tariff Components of the National Corporation and the Franchised Electric Utilities
• Department Circular No. 98-03-004 - Rules and Regulations Implementing Republic Act 8479, “Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998"

 

1999

• RA 8749 - Clean Air Act

 

2000

• DENR Administrative Order - Rules & Regulations Implementing Republic Act No. 8749, "The Clean Air Act"

 

2001

• RA 9136 - [EPIRA] An Act Ordaining Reforms in the in the Electric Power Industry Amending for the Purpose certain Laws and for other Purposes

 

2002

• Rules and Regulations to Implement RA 9136.

 

2004

• DOE CIRCULAR NO.: 2004-06-007 Promoting Investment Management Contracts

 

2006

• G.R. No. 163935 - Supreme Court Decision striking down automatic pass-through clauses for power purchases costs.
• RA 9367 - Biofuels Act of 2006

 

2007

• EO 622 - Repealing EO 460.EO 622.pdf
• EO 623 - Affirming the regulatory and supervisory authority of the NEA under RA 9236 and PD 269 (as amended by PD11645) over all ECs registered or not registered with the CDA or SEC. EO 623.pdf

 

2008

• RA 9513 - Renewable Energy Act of 2008 RA 9513.pdf

 

2009

• Implementing Rules and Regulations for RA 9513 Renewable Energy Law  

 

Other Documents

• Philippine Grid Code
• Philippine Distribution Code
• Wholesale Spot Electricity Market (WESM) Rules
• DOE Circulars