A SENATOR has called for increased investments in the country’s transport infrastructure and systems, saying the sector’s development is behind by 35 years compared with neighbors in the southeast Asian region.
s supposed to be 5% for infrastructure development,s public transportation, especially railways, will boost efforts to revive the economy from the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic.With transportation, with railway systems, more than airports, movement of people, movement of goods will be easier. That will attract, of course, foreign investments.
DoE Undersecretary Rowena Cristina L. Guevara on Monday said that some power plants in Luzon may experience forced outages that would reduce available capacity by 500-600 MW this year. Mr. Gatchalian also noted existing measures that can be tapped such as the Interruptible Load Program , which allows customers to operate their generating sets and collectively reduce electricity drawn from the grid to ration limited power supply.
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