Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said the culprit of the about five-hour brownout that hit Bacolod City from Thursday evening to early Friday morning, April 11 to 12, was Central Negros Electric Cooperative.
“It was failure on the Ceneco side,” Benitez said at a press conference on Monday, April 15.
The reason is its wires, which need to be replaced, tripped, he said.
This is one of the reasons why we pushed for a CENECO joint venture with More Power because it comes with a P2 billion Capex (capital expenditure) program to improve power lines and other needs, he said.
“We’re experiencing brownouts because of our system of wires…that needs to be modernized,” he said.
The mayor also reiterated his push for underground cabling.
However, government bureaucracy is delaying projects from moving faster, Benitez said.
The mayor said he will report what he has done in the past two years in his upcoming State of the City Address.*