Bagumbayan Vice presidential candidate Bayani Fernando said “The simultaneous shutting down of power plants for, accordingly, maintenance purposes, the poor inventory of power source and requirements and the poor anticipation of the ‘el niño phenomenon’ are just some of the proofs of engineering incompetence of our energy officials,”

In the news, Metro Manila and some provinces in Luzon and have gone through a debilitating series of two- to three-hour brownouts everyday for the past few weeks after the 540-megawatt (MW) Limay combined cycle power plant in Bataan and the Malampaya gas power plant were shut down for maintenance.

Bayani, a Mechanical Engineer and former Chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority explained that energy officials should have come up with a doable measure to avoid power shortage and to come up with an ideal schedule of maintaining and upgrading the power plants in the country and not doing it simultaneously especially on this period when National Election is just around the corner.

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