The Department of Energy will conduct a separate investigation to find out whether or not the report of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) toward the Luzon power outage, that occurred several weeks ago before the May 13 midterm election, is accurate.

Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla told reporters on Tuesday that the department will work on its own separate investigation to confirm the report of NGCP, specifying that bushfire and the nonactivation of the automatic protection system were the cause of the one-hour power outage in some areas in Luzon.

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