Power outages caused by storms, earthquakes, and even lightning cost the country 107.5 million consumer-hours in 2021, according to a study released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). Know more:
POWER outages caused by storms, earthquakes, and even lightning cost the country 107.5 million consumer-hours in 2021, according to a study released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies .
“Electricity supply interruptions hurt households, businesses, and the economy. Power outages increase households’ and businesses’ expenses to keep them running and disrupt ‘critical infrastructure’ such as banking, transportation, telecommunications, and production, which can lead to huge economic losses,” the PIDS said.
Francisco said power outages were caused by supply, technical, environmental or “interruptions due to natural events” like storms as well as other issues that cover “prescribed” or unspecified problems in the monthly interruption reports. “This is quite concerning given that the Philippines experiences numerous typhoons a year. Concurrently, this begs the need to improve and climate-proof our power and electricity-related infrastructure to protect them from damages and shorten the duration of weather-related downtime,” Francisco said.
Though access to electricity has improved, Francisco found that the country’s power supply remained insufficient.
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