19/08/2026
GREEN ALERT NETWORK (GAN) & GROUP OF ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIALISTS (GOES) JOINT STATEMENT
THE GREAT ENERGY BETRAYAL: NEGROS Generates 700MW, Yet Negrenses Suffer in the Dark Under Extortionate Rates
THE GREAT BETRAYAL: 600-700MW AND CONSUMES ROUGHLY 400 MW ENERGY, YET NEGRENSES SUFFER IN THE DARK ROUTINE BROWN-OUT AND EXTORTIONATE RATES.
The Green Alert Network (GAN) and the Group of Environmental Socialists (GOES) stand in absolute solidarity with the consumer-citizens of the Negros Island Region who continue to endure a grueling barrage of unannounced power outages, rolling blackouts, and skyrocketing electricity bills.
We write this statement to expose an intolerable truth that the power cartel and provincial leaders have tried to gloss over with corporate jargon: Negros Island is being systematically betrayed.
The math of this crisis reveals a profound injustice. Our island is a powerhouse of renewable energy, generating between 600 to 700 megawatts (MW) of electricity through our vast energy plants. Meanwhile, the entire population and economy of Negros only consume a peak demand of roughly 440 MW.
By all laws of logic and fairness, Negros should be completely energy self-sufficient, enjoying stable, uninterrupted, and low-cost green power. Instead, Negrenses are left to suffer from frequent energy shortages, ruined appliances, disrupted livelihoods, and some of the highest power rates in the country.
Our clean energy is aggressively exported to the Visayas Grid via the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), while our local electric cooperatives buy back expensive, dirty power from coal and diesel plants outside the island. We bear the environmental and social costs of hosting these massive power infrastructures, yet we are left with the crumbs of a broken system. We have been sold out to corporate grid pooling, and the promises of "cheap, reliable green energy" have been thoroughly broken.
In light of this ongoing crisis, we directly confront the Provincial Government of Negros and its designated energy consultant, Rafael "Lito" Coscolluela.
We ask you point-blank: What exactly are you doing, and where are your promises to the Negrenses?
For years, the provincial capitol has hosted high-level power summits, formed energy task forces, and promised a roadmap toward true energy independence. Negrenses were promised that local power would be prioritized for local consumers to insulate us from regional grid collapses. Yet, years later, the roadmaps remain on paper, the task forces remain silent, and the people are still being plunged into darkness while paying extortionate rates for the privilege.
We demand immediate accountability and concrete action, not more bureaucratic delays. We call on the provincial government and Mr. Coscolluela to:
Enforce Local Power Prioritization: Aggressively pursue mechanisms that mandate power generation companies on the island to supply local electric cooperatives first.
Review Power Supply Agreements (PSAs): Order an immediate, transparent audit of the disadvantageous contracts binding our local cooperatives to off-island fossil fuel suppliers.
Stop the Corporate Export of Our Resources: Stop prioritizing the corporate energy market at the expense of Negrosanon consumers.
The patience of the Negrense people has run out. We will no longer sit in the dark, paying premium prices for an energy crisis we did not create. We demand the energy sovereignty that is rightfully ours.
Power to the Consumers is Power to the People!
Protect Negros Energy Sovereignty!
