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The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is saddened by the statement of Mr. Bongbong Marcos on his concept of Electric Cooperatives (ECs) as inefficient parts in the chain of progress during his interview with DZRH on 25 January 2022.

For more than five decades, the ECs play an important role in ushering economic activities particularly in the rural areas through the implementation of the Rural Electrification Program (REP) which his father, the late former President Ferdinand E. Marcos has started and signed into law on 4 August 1969, the Republic Act No. 6038 or “An Act Declaring a National Policy Objective for the Total Electrification of the Philippines on an Area Coverage Basis, Providing for the organization of the National Electrification Administration, the Organization, Promotion and Development of Electric Cooperatives to Attain the Objective, Prescribing Terms and Conditions for their Operation, the Repeal of R.A. NO. 2717, and For Other Purposes”, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 269 enacted on 6 August 1973.

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Tropical Cyclone (TC) “Odette” has affected a total of 74 Electric Cooperatives (ECs) across the country. As of 26 January 2022, 782 municipalities have been fully restored while 128 are partially restored, and 28 municipalities has just commenced restoration work.

This crucial task would not have rolled out without the initiatives and support of ECs, government agencies, and energy stakeholder organizations. In implementing the Task Force Kapatid (TFK), ECs extended resources to other ECs that need restoration aid. This time-tested cooperation initiative was launched by the late former NEA Administrator Fr. Francisco Silva. It positions the default protocol of ECs to assist each other during and after natural and man-made calamities.