Enemalta's chief should honestly stop it with the gaslighting

Screenshot taken of the Malta Independent website

Enemalta Chief Ryan Fava told The Malta Independent on Sunday that he ‘rejects idea that energy grid deficiencies are a result of planning failures’.

When even the Prime Minister two weeks ago said “that Enemalta did not have enough time to do all the necessary work to amend this problem before the heat caught up to the island, despite the government’s investment of €55 million to improve the energy distribution system.” (as reported by Lovin Malta)

As reported on TMI: “In mid-July 2024, the National Audit Office (NAO) concluded that Enemalta’s shortcomings in both planning and investment, “to varying degrees,” played a role to the prolonged power outages experienced in the summer of 2023. These findings were published in the NAO’s “High-Level Review on Enemalta’s Planning and Investment in the Local Distribution Network.” This point was also highlighted by the Nationalist Party’s Shadow Minister for Energy, Ryan Callus, in an interview published with this newsroom in early June.”

However with all this evidence in front of him, Fava says that “I wouldn’t say it was a failure. I wouldn’t say we didn’t plan enough”.

I mean, I don't think anyone will enjoy an answer filled with denial, especially when they have to reach for a book (as a minister had suggested last summer) during a sweltering day caused by the next power cut.