The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) and the National Power Corporation (NPC) have entered a partnership to harness satellite technology for enhancing the country’s energy infrastructure, disaster resilience, and environmental resource management. This collaboration, formalized through a ceremonial signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on 09 July 2025, will focus on three key areas: 1) suitable project site identification and monitoring, 2) post-disaster recovery assessment, and 3) dams and watershed management.
With the Philippines being highly vulnerable to typhoons and other natural disasters, the partnership between PhilSA and NPC seeks to optimize energy infrastructure planning, ensuring future hybrid power plants, transmission lines, and distribution line projects will be strategically located and monitored during extreme weather events. Post-disaster assessments using satellite imagery will accelerate damage evaluation and power restoration, while satellite-based monitoring of dams and watersheds will improve flood control, water management, and environmental conservation.
As part of the agreement, PhilSA will also conduct capacity development activities and provide technical support to NPC personnel in satellite data management and applications.
PhilSA Deputy Director General for Space Science and Technology Dr. Gay Jane P. Perez thanks the attendees for joining the ceremony.
“Through this partnership, we’re not just exchanging data or technology, we’re building something more sustainable. With access to near real-time satellite feeds, we’re enabling NPC’s engineers and field teams to extract insights and apply them directly to operations, whether that’s monitoring dams, planning energy projects, or responding to emergencies,” PhilSA Deputy Director General for Space Science and Technology (DDGSST) Gay Jane P. Perez, Ph.D. said.
The collaboration between PhilSA and NPC underscores the commitment of both agencies towards a more resilient Philippines, informed by data, guided by science, and powered by innovation.
NPC President & CEO Fernando Martin Y. Roxas welcomes the partnership between the NPC and PhilSA.
“This partnership [with PhilSA] will help us perform our duties more efficiently, more effectively, especially in the planning and execution of projects, watershed management, the location of causes of outages in areas that are affected by the rain, and also planning our very complex supply chain of delivering fuel to 260 powerplants in the furthest last mile regions of the archipelago,” NPC President & CEO Dr. Fernando Martin Y. Roxas.
PhilSA DDGSST Perez and NPC President & CEO Roxas signed the agreement, witnessed by PhilSA Space Information Infrastructure Bureau (SIIB) Director Dr. Ariel C. Blanco and NPC Corporate Affairs Group Vice President Rogel T. Teves.
The PhilSA and NPC technical leads for implementing projects under the MOA.
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About PhilSA
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is the central government agency of the Philippines that plans, develops, and promotes the national space program in line with the Philippine Space Policy. Created in August 2019 under Republic Act No. 11363 (‘The Philippine Space Act’), PhilSA is an attached agency of the Office of the President of the Philippines for purposes of policy and program coordination and to ensure alignment in national policies and priorities.
About NPC
The National Power Corporation (NPC) is a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) duly organized and existing under and by virtue of Republic Act (RA) No. 6395, as amended. It is primarily responsible for developing, generating, and transmitting affordable and reliable electricity, particularly to underserved and unserved areas in the Philippines.