Published February 4, 2021, 7:00 AM
The Department of Energy (DOE) is giving its word that brownouts will not hamstring the anticipated COVID-19 vaccine rollouts in the coming months, so the country can finally sneak away from the reins of the pandemic.
According to Energy Undersecretary Felix William B. Fuentebella, the department is working on a “triple safeguard” at ensuring electricity supply throughout the government-underpinned inoculation program, so vaccine storage as well as administration will not suffer from drawbacks.
Energy Undersecretary Felix William Fuentebella
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Under the targeted set-up during the vaccination program, “there would be three power back-ups,” the energy official said.
Energy Undersecretary Felix William Fuentebella
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According to Department of Energy (DoE) Spokesperson Felix William Fuentebella, the DOE-Electric Power Industry Management Bureau (EPIMB) will be working with the Task Force on Energy Resiliency (TFER) to explore the feasibility of undertaking a “triple safeguard” approach to securing power services in vaccine storage and administration sites.
Fuentebella said this will be similar to the contingencies employed during the 30th SEAG, which the country hosted nearly two weeks in late 2019. As the phrase triple safeguard implies, there would be three power backups under this set up.
“The first line would be coming from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), the second from the Distribution Utilities, while the third and final back up would be the generators provided by the facility itself or the local government unit (LGU),” explained Fuentebella.
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