NO LESS than President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. had said that there is no artificial power crisis in the country, with the Philippines facing red and yellow alerts on a daily basis.

''No, it definitely is not an artificial crisis, dahil talagang the power systems are overloaded. Ang naging consumption natin biglang tumaas talaga, because of the, dahil napakainit,'' Marcos said.

Likewise, Marcos said that they continue to monitor and come up with solutions for the country's power supply. '

''We’re continuing to monitor the price and we’re continuing to encourage and to endorse all of the programs of NGCP (National Grid Corporation of the Philippines) so that they will increase the coverage of their transmission lines all over the country,'' he said. 

An investigation by the Department of Energy said that the April 2024 unplanned outages in over 32 power plants was considered as record-setting, to which from the said number,  1,811 megawatts of power lost or more than double the previous average of 700 megawatts of power supply lost from 2019 to 2023.