Occidental Mindoro delivered for Marcos in 2022, providing him nearly 50% of the votes cast there. Now, it's the President's turn to deliver on his campaign commitment to resolve the brownouts that have plagued the province.
That was the playful chant of Occidental Mindoro residents when Ferdinand Marcos Jr. visited the province as a presidential aspirant on April 20, 2022. He was in the middle of his speech when his supporters – who were enduring the summer heat – tried to catch his attention regarding the issue of power outages.He then pulled out from his pocket a piece of paper and told his enthusiastic audience that he had received their list of concerns, with power supply woes as priority No. 1.
“The ice plant here could not provide us ice blocks consistently,” he said. “Last year, the situation was better.” But there was initially a glimmer of hope in 2014, when power distributor Occidental Mindoro Electric Cooperative entered into a power-sharing agreement with Emerging Power Incorporated .
Basic math dictates that a 20-megawatt facility could not keep up with the daily power demand of the province at 27 megawatts as of 2021 . Power provider OMCPC has also earned the ire of residents for either shutting down its power plant or reducing its energy supply . The provincial government, meanwhile, lambasted OMCPC for supposedly choosing profit over public service.
But OMCPC made it clear that funds from NPC would allow the corporation to increase the energy supply that it provides. RALLY. The town plaza in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro becomes witness to a gathering of residents who have had enough of the power supply fiasco. Contributed photo. CALLOUT. On social media, Occidental Mindoro residents dismayed with the power outages use “#sospbbm” to alarm the national government about the crisis. Facebook screenshotThe provincial government declared a state of calamity, allowing them to tap into special funds that would ensure continuous operations of essential public services, like hospitals.
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