Sen. Raffy Tulfo visited President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. at Malacañang Palace on Monday, expressing concern over the country’s energy security amid poor performance of and threats to such security arising from the ownership of the NGCP. Know more:
SEN. Raffy Tulfo visited President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. at Malacañang Palace on Monday, expressing concern over the country’s energy security amid poor performance of and threats to such security arising from the ownership of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines .
The senator pressed for the return of the systems operation of the country’s transmission grid to the National Transmission Corporation , a Philippine government entity. The senator also noted, “All the instructions posted in NGCP plants about operations of sensitive equipment, including manuals, are written in Chinese characters, adding that there is no Filipino technician knows how to operate this.”
The senator recalled that “the Luzon grid was recently placed under red and yellow alerts, with several areas reporting power outages,” adding that the prolonged power interruptions in Panay and Negros over the past weeks had been “discovered to be due to inadequacies in the transmission system being operated by the NGCP.”Amid the frenzy of NGCP bashing triggered by recent unscheduled outages, Escudero counseled caution.
Escudero questioned the State’s capability to run the NGCP, which is now being blamed for the power outages in various parts of the country, noting that the government’s failure in the past led to the privatization of agency.
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