Congress should revoke the franchise of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), Negros Power Watch Advocates (NGCP) secretary general Wennie Sancho said on Monday, January 8.
He slammed the NGCP for the recent repeat of the power outages that hit Western Visayas Visayas in August last year.
Investigations then revealed that the system disturbance was triggered
by a generation tripping. NGCP in a statement had said that it was tirelessly working to determine the root cause of this tripping and to provide a universal solution to restore and stabilize the supply chain and then it happened again in January this year, Sancho said.
Consumers, especially in Panay, suffered terrible inconvenience
due to the inefficiency of NGCP, Sancho said.
NGCP failed in its mandate as a system protector because it was not able to avert the system from collapsing, Sancho said.
“What is the plan of NGCP to insure power security in Western Visayas? What are measures taken by NGCP to prevent future power outages? NGCP should explain this to the consumers”, he said.
Congress should also investigate NGCP and revoke its
franchise as it does not live up to its task to protect the system, Sancho also said.*