The chairman of the Senate committee on energy on Thursday pointed to petitions by environmentalists as a major cause of delay in building power plants.This was after Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla admitted in a hearing on the power rate hike that electricity supply will be tight until 2016. He gave guarantees, however, that there will be no power failure similar to the 10-hour daily blackouts during the time of President Corazon Aquino. Petilla said the DOE is looking at coal, geothermal, and liquefied natural gas as additional energy sources.
Read here what transpired during the Senate hearing.
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