ZAMBOANGA CITY Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar has appealed to supplier Western Mindanao Power Corp. (WMPC) and electricity distributor Crown Desco to work out a deal after the former issued a notice of temporary supply suspension last week due to unpaid accounts. Crown Desco, the joint venture of Crown Investments Holdings, Inc. and Desco Co., has recently taken over the operations of debt-ridden Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Zamcelco). In a statement on her Facebook page, the mayor said she has spoken to officials of WMPC and Crown Desco over the weekend to urge them to ensure a continued power supply in the city. Representatives of both companies were scheduled to have a discussion Monday in a meeting to be facilitated by the city government. As of Sept. 2018, when Crown Desco won the bid for the investor-manager contract for Zamcelco, the power cooperative had debts to suppliers amounting to more than P2 billion. Its operation efficiency was also problematic with a 23% system loss rate.

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