MANILA, Philippines — The Nationwide Grid Company of the Philippines (NGCP) stated on Friday it can’t intervene on “issues regarding energy technology,” following a large energy outage in Panay Island which started on January 2.
“Because the transmission service supplier, NGCP can solely give an outline of the present provide and demand scenario and endeavor to dispatch any and all accessible energy. It can’t intervene on issues regarding energy technology,” NGCP stated in an announcement.
The NGCP asserted that it didn’t fail in its obligation to stabilize the transmission system and dismissed allegations that it didn’t correctly inform the general public.
“We firmly refute allegations suggesting that NGCP failed in its obligation to stabilize the transmission system. We additionally take exception to the allegations that we had been lower than clear in offering data to the general public. We offer common updates to all stakeholders, together with the media and authorities items (LGUs), by means of print, radio, broadcast, social media, and textual content blasts,” it stated.
NGCP added that policymakers must be goal of their investigation of the incident and that there must be a “complete industry-wide method” to fixing the facility points within the nation.
“This isn’t a time to push private or political agendas, however a time for honest-to-goodness resolution discovering. We once more reiterate our push for a complete industry-wide method to resolve the persistent energy provide points on Panay Island and elsewhere within the nation,” it stated.
In accordance with the NGCP, the Panay outage was attributable to the tripping of a number of energy crops, and stated that there was “no abnormality in voltage and system stability.”
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