July 22, 2016 By Juzel L. Danganan, Philippine
News Agency
MANILA, July 22 –The
National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) on Friday strongly condemned what
it called an “act of sabotage” the throwing of a tree branch tied with a rope
at NGCP’s Baloi Agus 2′s 138 kilovolt line 1 in Barangay Adapun Ali, Balo-I, Lanao
del Norte last Wednesday morning.
Lawyer Cynthia D.
Perez-Alabanza, NGCP spokesperson and head, Corporate Communications and Public
Affairs, said in a statement that such “act of sabotage” directly caused the
Baloi-Agus 2 138-kW transmission line to trip, which then isolated the Agus
hydro plants, supplying power to the rest of Mindanao grid.
Earlier, NGCP was
reported to have cut the power connection of the two units of the Agus
hydroelectric plants, which have a total capacity of 82 megawatts, from the
Mindanao grid, after a tree-branch attached to a rope damaged the plants’
transmission lines.
Perez-Alabanza
clarified impression that NGCP deliberately cut off the power connection of the
two units of the Agus hydroelectric plants.
She reiterated that
unknown perpetrators’ act of sabotage (i.e. a tree branch tied with rope
intentionally thrown at a transmission line) directly caused the Baloi-Agus 2
138 kV transmission line to trip, which isolated the Agus hydro plants
supplying power to the rest of Mindanao grid.
NGCP appealed anew to
the public to respect transmission right-of-way clearances to prevent power
interruption and accidents.
Just a week ago, Line 2
of the same Baloi- Agus 2 line was similarly sabotaged. Line 2 has been out
since July 12 after unknown persons maliciously erected a bamboo pole within
the NGCP’s right of way corridor, causing the transmission line to trip.
Attempts to re-energize
the line failed after claimant over the property refused NGCP access to the
transmission lines to conduct restoration activities.
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