A lot of things have been said about the recent blackout affecting several states in the Peninsular Malaysia. However, little has been said about the positive side of that particular blackout.

TNB CEO did explain after the blackout that part of the blackout had been due to the maintenance exercise carried out on Sept 1. The maintenance on the spare line was carried out on the day where most of the industries were on the replacement public holiday. It has been a very considerate time to perform such maintenance.

As a Malaysian consumer, I see that event as a positive one. Judging from the occurrence of such a blackout, I strongly believe that TNB has done a very good job indeed. It might be part of TNB's Disaster Recovery Planning to exercise and simulate its backbone system failure.

TNB then would want to simulate the fastest recovery time taken to put the entire system back up and running. However, to some quarters, the response time might not be fast enough to their standards. Those quarters definitely want TNB to restore the system as fast as they commit to pay TNB on time every month.

I believe that the event affecting Northern America weeks ago might have alerted TNB to carry on with the exercise. This is a very noble and responsible practice from the power giant.

I welcome any such exercise to be carried out again from time to time to gauge TNB's responsiveness in dealing with probable energy crisis.

I do not mind losing RM1,000 for a few hours than losing millions of ringgit in the event of a continuous disruption caused by the lack of disaster recovery planning and executions.