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KORONADAL/CAGAYAN DE ORO -- Mindanao, which has never fully recovered from the crippling power outages that hit amid the dry spell in the first half, faces renewed uncertainty as the new wave of rotating hours-long brownouts that started last Sept. 13 persists.
A check with the Web site of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) showed that Mindanao had a power deficiency of 119 megawatts yesterday.
Since last week, rotating brownouts -- at one point lasting seven hours -- have hit the service area of the South Cotabato Electric Cooperative I (Socoteco I), which distributes electricity in South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat provinces. NGCP said transmission between Bukidnon and the Cotabato provinces had to be cut for one day to prevent an overload as it activated a new transmission line from Bukidnon to the eastern part of the Davao Region. The brownouts, however, have continued.
Santiago C. Tudio, Socoteco I general manager, urged NGCP to provide more frequent advisories. "We want to know how long this will occur, and what’s the [real] cause," he told local journalists.
Mr. Tudio said his counterparts in Lanao areas have told him they have been experiencing two-and-a-half hour brownouts as well.
Cagayan de Oro had actually experienced nine-hour rotating outages in some areas last week, Nelson F. Cabangon, head of Corporate Affairs Department of NGCP, said.
Two-and-a-half hours of rotating brownouts will be implemented by the Cagayan Electric Power and Light Co. starting tomorrow. These outages are due to deficiency caused by the maintenance of Pulangi IV’s Unit 1 and Agus VI’s Unit 1. These outages could last for weeks, the NGCP announced. -- RSS and LGD
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