The House of Representatives on Wednesday granted emergency powers to President Benigno Aquino 3rd to allow him to address an expected power supply shortfall next year.
The House, through a 149-18 vote, approved Joint Resolution 21 on third reading, thus allowing the government to financially compensate private companies that will use their self-generating facilities or power generators for their own power supply during the summer months to ease the demand in the national grid under the Interruptible Load Program (ILP).
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