The Department of Energy ( fil, Kagawaran ng Enerhiya}, abbreviated as DOE) is the
executive department
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of the
Philippine government responsible for preparing, integrating, manipulating, organizing, coordinating, supervising, and controlling all plans, programs, projects and activities of the Government relative to energy exploration, development, utilization, distribution and conservation.
History
The Department of Energy was created by then-president
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. ( , , ; September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial ...
as he issued Presidential Decree No. 1206 which created the Ministry of Energy and attached the National Power Corporation and Philippine National Oil Company to this new agency. The ministry and its two bureaus (Bureau of Energy Development and Bureau of Energy Utilization) remained intact but was downgraded into a mere Office of Energy Affairs—headed by Wenceslao de la Paz and reporting to then Deputy Executive Secretary for Energy Catalino Macaraig, Jr. based in Malacanang—during the administration of President
Corazon Aquino
Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People ...
. During the presidency of
Fidel V. Ramos, the department was created due t
Republic Act No. 7638otherwise known as the ''Department of Energy Act of 1992''.
The department was vested additional powers and functions unde
Republic Act No. (RA) 8479or the "Downstream Oil Deregulation Act of 1997"
RA 9136or the "Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001"
RA 9367or "Biofuels Act of 2006"
RA 9513or "Renewable Energy Act of 2008
RA 11234or "Energy Virtual One Stop Shop Act"
RA 11285or "Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act"
RA 11592or "LPG Industry Regulation Act"
RA 11646or "Microgrid Systems Act", an
RA 11697or "Electric Vehicle Industry Development Act."
Organization
The department is headed by the Secretary of Energy who is assisted by three Undersecretaries and three Assistant Secretaries. Under the department are the Administrative Service, Financial Service, Information Technology and Management Service, Legal Service and Energy Research Testing and Laboratory Service. In place of regional offices, the department has field offices for Luzon in Rosales, Pangasinan, Visayas in Cebu City, and Mindanao in Davao City.
List of secretaries of the Department of Energy
Bureaus
See also
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U.S. Department of Energy
*
Department of Energy (United Kingdom)
References
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External links
Department of Energy (Philippines)
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Energy in the Philippines
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* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
Philippines, Energy
Energy
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