President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Sunday said the government will intercede to address the persistent power outages in Negros and Panay islands reportedly caused by a failure in the distribution system.
This as Sen. Raffy Tulfo raised concern over the rotational brownouts in the two islands since April 27.
The President said if the linemen of the privately owned utilities could not do the job, then the government has to step in.Mr. Marcos added that the government was trying to manage both the country’s water and power supply. “We are now trying to control or trying to manage rather our water consumption, our power consumption because that’s very closely related,” he said.
“In terms of Mindoro and even Marinduque, we’ve already been able to do some remedial measures,” he added. But the NGCP was blaming the Central Negros Electric Cooperative for the rotational brownouts, Tulfo said.He noted that NGCP and CENECO were blaming one another for the problem.
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