{"id":76822,"date":"2026-03-25T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/25\/philippines-declares-national-energy-emergency-iran-war"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:26:10","slug":"philippines-declares-national-energy-emergency-and-boosts-coal-power-as-iran-war-grinds-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76822","title":{"rendered":"Philippines declares \u2018national energy emergency\u2019 and boosts coal power as Iran war grinds on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s declaration allows officials to tackle fuel hoarding or profiteering, while energy secretary says country will lean more heavily on coal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/25\/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-war-oil-prices-more-us-troops-reportedly-deployed-donald-trump-attacks-on-lebanon\"><strong>Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Philippines president, Ferdinand Marcos, has declared a state of \u201cnational energy emergency\u201d as a result of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">Middle East war<\/a>, which his administration said posed \u201can imminent danger of a critically low energy supply\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The state of emergency, which will initially last for a year, was declared just hours after the country\u2019s energy secretary said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/philippines\">the Philippines<\/a> planned to boost the output of its coal-fired power plants to keep electricity costs down as the war wreaks havoc with gas shipments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/25\/philippines-declares-national-energy-emergency-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s declaration allows officials to tackle fuel hoarding or profiteering, while energy secretary says country will lean more heavily on coalMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesThe Philippines president, Ferdinand Marcos, has declared a state of \u201cn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,493,3439,492,55,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-energy","category-ferdinand-marcos-jr","category-fossil-fuels","category-philippines","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76824,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76822\/revisions\/76824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}