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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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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.