Don’t legislate PH energy mix – Umali

The plan of Department of Energy (DOE) to legislate the proposed balanced energy mix in power supply will not work, according to the chairman of the House Energy Committee.

“It won’t work. The market should dictate. It is not for us to legislate, because it is difficult to get out of it once it’s legislated, because for that we need to amend the law. I don’t think we will have that flexibility to move from one technology to another when we have that,” Representative Reynaldo V. Umali, chairman of house committee of energy told reporters in a chance interview after the 3rd Power and Electricity World Philippines.