February 3, 2021 | 8:38 pm
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THE Department of Energy (DoE) said late Tuesday evening that two of its units are working on providing backup power for COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) vaccine storage and administration facilities.
In a statement distributed on Viber, Undersecretary and spokesman Felix B. Fuentebella said the department’s Electric Power Industry Management Bureau (EPIMB) and the Task Force on Energy Resiliency (TFER) are looking at three levels of power supply for facilities deemed critical to the vaccine rollout.
“The first line… is the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), the second the Distribution Utilities… The final back up would be the generators provided by the facility itself or the local government unit,” he said in the statement.