IS the Department of Energy’s (DOE) selection process of power suppliers for electric power requirements tailor-fit for favored suppliers? Senator Alan Peter Cayetano raised this question at a Senate energy committee hearing Thursday presided by his sister, Senator Pia Cayetano.
IS the Department of Energy’s selection process of power suppliers for electric power requirements tailor-fit for favored suppliers?
Alan Cayetano said the DOE and the Energy Regulatory Commission should look into the issue raised by Manila Times columnist Roberto Tiglao in his article dated July 15, 2024, citing an alleged obvious attempt to tailor-fit the qualifications of bidders. To underscore the cruciality of energy security, she recalled that “in the late 1980s to 90s when we had the energy crisis, when mothers could not sleep because they had to keep fanning their children—not even using an electric fan, huh?”
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