Meralco addresses concerns raised over power outages

I am writing you in response to the column of Ben Kritz entitled “Meralco goes to pieces,” which came out in your paper on August 11 where he harped on the outages that occurred last August 5, and suggested that these outages could have been mitigated had Meralco been more prepared.

To put into context the concern of Mr. Kritz regarding the outages, the Luzon grid was on red alert that day due to the outages of several power plants. As a ditribution utility, Meralco could only distribute whatever available power is rationed by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).