Bohol today will plunge into total blackout. According to the NGCP, the brownout is necessary to give way to its routine power line repair. Elsewhere in Mindanao, power crisis is palpable. This problem has been ignored by officials. The current power crisis in the country reflects the government's inability to see future problems. Instead of taking proactive measures to address a foreseeable need, officials are merely reacting to an inevitable problem. More often than not, the action revolves around blaming game with no one taking responsibility for the crisis. The country is endowed with various sources of alternative energy, yet they remain unharnessed. Although a ragtag private energy sector is now taking the initiative to depart from the traditional source of energy, the government remains directionless as to how it should charter the country's growing electricity consumption. So far the blame goes to the prolonged dry spell. But the administration may also run to other poor excuses why it remains helpless to fix the headache.

Some say our power crisis can be solved by political will when officials start acting collectively and stop delaying the implementation of possible solutions to the crisis. While it is partly true that political will is vital to the solution process, the government must also be properly guided as to which source of alternative energy is best for the Philippines and its people. One possible source of power is wind. Wind turbines continue to be developed that are progressively more energy efficient and less costly. Many nations have been developing the so-called “wind farms” and they found that wind is indeed cheap and efficient. Such a progressive approach to sourcing out of alternative energy contributes to the purity of the world's environ. Solar energy is very much another viable source of power enough to light homes in the provinces. This involves the manufacturing of solar cells which gather and focus the energy given off directly by the sun, and translate it into electricity or, in some cases, hot water. As with wind energy, solar energy creates absolutely zero pollution.

Scientists have also harnessed energy from ocean waves, another source of alternative energy. France has been exploiting ocean wave energy and is getting good results from its experimentation. Other countries located nearby bodies of seawaters are now poised to follow France's experimentation. Geothermal energy abounds in many places in the Philippines, and this should be given priority in maximizing its usefulness. This energy is produced by the heating of water through the actions of earth's fantastically hot molten core. The water turns to steam, which can be harnessed and used to drive turbine engines which in turn generate electricity. On the other hand, we do not advocate the use of biodiesel as source of alternative energy. Recent studies have shown that biodiesel fuel contributes to world hunger as biodiesel energy comes from plants and crops such as soybean, corn, or sunflower oils. The country does not even know how to utilize its idle lands for agriculture. Nuclear energy can be a very stable source of power. We already tried it during the administration of Marcos. No thanks to the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant which until today remains useless, but the country is still paying in millions of pesos daily to its international creditor. Power crisis, in the end, should not alarm us since the Philippines has all the options which road to alternative energy to take. However, if corruption gets into any of government projects aimed at solving the energy crisis, the worse is yet to come.