Brownouts hit a large portion of Metro Manila and provinces in Luzon on Wednesday as six major power plants on the island went on unscheduled shutdowns, five days before the election on May 13. By Wednesday evening, three power plants had gone back online.
The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) is seeking regulatory approval to undertake a P36-billion Cebu-Negros-Panay interconnection project, to prepare the grid for an additional 491 megawatts of new capacity coming in by 2016.
Although it has never been tried anywhere in the country, Naga City is optimistic that a P3-billion project on a five-hectare government property can convert garbage into electric energy while solving its waste problem.
Electric cooperatives officials took turns, on Saturday, in criticizing the power industry’s big three – the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) and the National Power Corp. (NPC)—for their “sluggish response” in restoring full power supply in areas devastated by typhoon Pablo, particularly Compostela Valley, Davao Oriental, Surigao del Norte and Agusan del Sur.
POWER supply in four provinces in Cagayan Valley and the Cordillera will be cut off for 12 hours on Wednesday to give way to maintenance work of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP).
THE July 2 auction of properties owned by National Grid Corp. of the Philippines won’t push through.
The simplest solution to a diminishing power supply in Luzon is to conserve energy, the Ilocano way.
A spate of rotating brownouts is threatening to hit Luzon as the available power supply swung to low, precarious levels on Thursday.
The era of cheap electricity in Mindanao is coming to an end, President Aquino said on Friday as he launched into an impassioned defense of the government’s attempts to rationalize the power situation in the island at the Mindanao Power Summit that was called to discuss solutions to the supply shortfall that has brought rotating power blackouts the past few months.
Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras has asked the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) to hold in abeyance the scheduled cut off of power supply to the Albay Electric Cooperative (Aleco) that had been set on Wednesday, according to Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero.
