Published
February 10, 2017, 10:01 PM By Mike
U. Crismundo
Surigao City – The
whole province of Surigao del Norte, including this city and tourist haven
Siargao Island, and portions of Surigao del Sur will experience a 12-hour
brownout today.
Aside from the 20
Surigao del Norte, Siargao Island and this city, also to be affected by the
daytime power interruption will be the municipalities of Carrascal, Cantilan,
Madrid, Carmen and Lanuza in Surigao del Sur.
In a notice sent to the
Association of Mindanao Rural Electric Cooperatives (AMRECO) president Sergio
C. Dagooc by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), the
brownout will start at 6 a.m. up to 6 p.m.
“Based on its notice,
NGCP will temporarily shut down in these areas due to some engineering
activities and improvement in its transmission lines,” Dagooc said, who is also
the general manager (GM) of Siargao Islands and Dinagat Islands Electric
Cooperatives.
He said the power
interruption was also due to tapping of conductors and overhead guy wires at
the newly constructed structure “bored piled foundation” along Butuan-Placer
138 KV line.
“The NGCP will also
conduct ride-on correction of identified defective high voltage equipment in
Placer sub-station and Barangay Anislagan, also in Placer, Surigao del Norte,”
the AMRECO president told Manila Bulletin yesterday.
“Based on our
experience, the NGCP will exert all its efforts to restore the line much
earlier than the schedule they set,” Dagooc added.
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