With the country’s frail power supply situation, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines is hammering out contingency measures to avoid electricity service disruptions on this year’s May 9 elections.
The election contingency toolbox of NGCP includes suspension of maintenance works and construction activities inside substations and within 300 meters of energized power lines from May 2 to 16. Activities that could be postponed will have to be temporarily shelved from April 24 to May 8, except for emergency cases.
It specified that while the May 9 elections is a special non-working day, the transmission firm’s critical units will remain to be fully staffed and operational. The transmission company noted it already made warranted coordination with the Commission on Elections and all other concerned government agencies on directives for the activation of its command center.