Consumers Group Backs Penalties for Power Firms Over Visayas Outages
A Philippine consumer group, Access, has endorsed a call by the Senate President for the Department of Energy and the Energy Regulatory Commission to penalize power firms responsible for recurring widespread power outages in the Visayas region, advocating for consumer protection and stable electricity supply.
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