Geothermal in Philippines

The government of the Philippines advocated developing the local electricity resources in order to mitigate the importing of petroleum. From 1976, it started its commercialized well drilling of geothermal energy. Until the middle of the 1980s, its installed capacity on geothermal power generation ranked the second in the world in place of Italy, and the dependence on petroleum declined from 95% in the early of the 1970s to 50%. In 1996, the installed capacity and electricity production covered 13% and 23% of the total respectively. In the electricity development planning in 15 years worked out by the national electricity company, among the new increment of generation capacity, 18% are derived from geothermal generation before the year of 2005.