THE Department of Energy (DoE) wants the National Transmission Corp. (TransCo) to conduct an audit of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) to put to rest the security issues hounding the latter amid lingering fears that China could take over the country’s power grid.

“Once and for all, let’s put a closure to that, and that can be done only [with an] audit…because [if there is a threat], whether…real or imaginary, [the government must be] ready for any eventuality, and we can do that only if [the] NGCP cooperates,” Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said in Taglish during the press briefing of the 2019 National Energy Consciousness Month at his agency’s headquarters in Taguig City.