Rep. Carlos Zarate of Bayan Muna urged the House committee on energy to investigate the simultaneous shutdown of power plants that triggered power rate hikes.

Zarate said that before the intensity 6 earthquake in Mabini, Batangas damaged six power plants, there was a confluence and overlap of announced and unannounced power plant shutdowns: the Malampaya maintenance shutdown that ran from January 28 to February 16, 2017 coinciding with the scheduled maintenance of Calaca Unit 1 and Quezon Power, and the Sual 1 unscheduled outage that resulted in a P0.66/kwh increase in electricity rates.

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