Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, May 24 took the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to task in penalizing power-generating plants that may have breached their reliability index. Gatchalian’s call came in the face of looming rotating power outages,...
Probabilities of rotational brownouts could wreck some parts in the Visayas, as system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) raised alarm on the critical state of overloading at the 69-kilovolt (kV) Amlan-Siaton transmission line in the grid. Prompted by that dilemma, NGCP...
While Filipinos are being crippled by the stifling heat of summer, parts of Luzon grid descended into unwanted brownouts or services interruptions due to the prolonged forced outages of power plants and aggravated by the tripping of one major transmission line on Tuesday. In the franchise area of...
The "prince of darkness" is taking back the crippling journey to Luzon, as the country’s major power grid has been placed on "red alert" for the second time this week – entailing that consumers must prepare for the strike of probable rotational brownouts. System operator National Grid...
Electric distribution utility Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) announced power interruptions in Batangas, Caloocan, Cavite, Laguna, Manila, Muntinlupa, and Pasay. In a post made by the electric company, the seven cities and province will start their maintenance schedule on Monday, Nov. 6 to Wednesday,...
The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) apologized for another incident of power interruption at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 on Friday, June 9, that lasted for 37 minutes. *Passengers line up in long queues after a power interruption at the Ninoy Aquino...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) forthrightly stated that it is amenable to the ‘audit call’ by the Department of Energy (DOE), granted that these are carried out within the legal bounds of its concession agreement with the government as well as its franchise...
Following the series of transmission facility-induced rotational blackouts in the Luzon and Visayas grids, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that a two-tiered follow-through audit on the performance of system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) will be carried out –...
The chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy has expressed concern that the rotational brownouts in the islands of Panay and Negros, which started last April 27, could possibly continue in the coming days. Senator Raffy Tulfo, committee chairman, said he was initially informed that the power...
The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will implement power interruptions in various parts of Cavite on Sunday, Dec. 11. Power outages are scheduled from 7:00 a.m. to 7:59 a.m. and again between 5:01 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the circuits of Abubot 32XZ and 38XZ. Affected areas include the portion of...
The forced outage of the 668-megawatt Dinginin coal-fired plant, a joint venture of the Ayala-Aboitiz group, has caused short-term electricity service disruption or brownout to more than 450,000 customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) in Manila and adjacent provinces on Wednesday. According...
The Palawan Electric Cooperative (PALECO) implementing remedies to prevent the recurrence of blackouts in its service area after investigating the causes of the recent power disruptions. According to the National Electrification Administration (NEA), PALECO Acting General Manager Federico Villar...
