\u201cYou cannot call for better system planning when you are the sole grid system operator.\u201d<\/p>\n
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This was the call by Anakalusugan Partylist Representative Ray Reyes after the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) released a statement on the unplanned power interruptions that wrought havoc on the island of Luzon last week and on Panay Island last April, finding their statement \u201csorely lackluster.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Last Thursday, Rep. Reyes filed House Resolution No. 966, urging the appropriate committees of the Lower Chamber to investigate in aid of legislation the failure of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines and the Energy Regulatory Commission to provide reliable power supply to the country.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt has been clear to us for some time now that NGCP\u2019s failure to commit to their Transmission Development Plan timeline to interconnect all the major islands in the Philippines is also one of the reasons for the country\u2019s intermittent and unreliable power supply,\u201d according to the lawmaker.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNow you are saying that there needs to be proper system planning due to the \u2018confluence of events\u2019 that occurred? How can you say that when this could have been avoided had you only acted sooner in granting those ancillary service contracts?” Rep. Reyes asked on Monday.<\/p>\n
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DOE Undersecretary Rowena Guevara has stated on record that had NGCP finished the Visayas-Mindanao interconnection project, Mindanao could have helped in supplying power.<\/p>\n
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Because they were unable to do so, the resulting power outages have endangered the live of Filipinos who are in desperate need of life support services and medical attention during the peak of these summer months.<\/p>\n
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According to Rep. Reyes, the reliability of power supply is necessary for the delivery of medical services and other life-affirming medical treatments, and these power interruptions caused by the lack of proper ancillary service agreements \u201cclearly stems from NGCP\u2019s failure to re-contract these services early on.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat confluence of events are you passing the buck to now? The ERC? When you could have anticipated for this yearly occurrence?\u201d Rep. Reyes added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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