Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:00 AM
August 05, 2019
The light at the end of the tunnel
is now in sight for the long-suffering residents of Palawan following efforts
of the Department of Energy (DOE) to ramp up support for a multisectoral
program to end the recurrent brownouts in the province once and for all.
In a meeting last week, stakeholders
in the public and private sectors came up with various programs based on the
recent findings and recommendations of the DOE’s Task Force Paleco.
The task force was created in
February by Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi to address the power interruptions
in Puerto Princesa and other parts of Palawan.
The Inter-Agency Coordinating
Committee and the Task Force met with the representatives of the Palawan
Electric Cooperative (Paleco), National Power Corp. (NPC) and provincial
government agencies on Thursday (July 25) to discuss the progress of the
implementation of their respective action plans.
Paleco has been facing an angry
backlash from both its consumers and the local government since 2017 due to
unreliable electricity services in the province.
Earlier, Cusi directed TF Paleco to
look into the power issues in Palawan through a performance audit. To this end,
the Task Force conducted two site validations in February and March.
The task force’s findings included
the uncoordinated synchronization of the protection system of Paleco and NPC’s
distributions lines; overloaded substations; vegetation obstruction along
distribution lines, and the slow coordination among various government agencies
on distribution line maintenance.
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