DOE taps DOJ to look into alleged sabotage in recent power outages

The Department of Energy also sought the assistance of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to look into the alleged “sabotage' in relation to the power plant outages that resulted in rotational brownouts in Luzon in the previous days.

According to DOE's Electric Power Industry Management Bureau director Mario Marasigan on Friday, the agency is already preparing the documents for the investigation.

"Actually kaya po kami humingi ng tulong sa ating (we ask the help of the) Philippine Competition Commission and the DOJ is for us to look into the situation," Marasigan told lawmakers.

"We are still in the process of collating information and we have not yet identified which particular generating companies are to be subjected," Marasigan added.

Also, he said the DOE is serious in going after these generation companies, which could be at fault on the recent power outages.

Earlier, the DOE said that the insufficient supply that resulted in power outages in the past three days was caused by the unplanned or forced outages of the generation plants that are owned by the private sector. —LBG, GMA News