NGCP blamed for making power row worse

Major energy officials, led by the Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla himself, has come up with guns blazing to make the country’s power transmission operator liable for its failure to use the state-owned 600-megawatt Malaya thermal power plant during the Malampaya gas field shutdown in November last year.

This issue was raised during a Senate committee hearing on Thursday on the recent power rate hike, where it was revealed that the Malaya plant’s output should have been used during the Malampaya shutdown.