BACOLOD CITY––Senator Win Gatchalian on Sunday assured people that the Senate would look into the problem caused by the damaged submarine cable of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines’s (NGCP) between Cebu and Negros. The damage has driven up power rates by an average of P1.60 per kWh. “Our position in the committee is that the increased rates should not be passed on to the consumers,” he said. Whoever destroyed the submarine cable should be made to pay, he said. The Cebu-Negros submarine cable was damaged during the amphibious dredging at the mouth of Bio-os River in Barangay Pondol, Amlan, Negros Oriental.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 27, 2021 06:33 UTC