At least two provinces and a city in Luzon should brace for brownouts after the electric cooperatives serving them failed to pay billions of pesos in debt to power generation companies, including the state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (Psalm).
Imagine riding or walking down Osmeña Boulevard without seeing the ugly tangle of electric wires, telephone cables and posts on both sides.
An electric cooperative in Mindanao warned that the brownouts in Zamboanga City could worsen to up to six hours a day should consumers continue to oppose its plan to buy more expensive electricity from one of the diesel-fired power barges owned by the Aboitiz-led Therma Marine Inc.
