Several villages in some areas in Binangonan will have power interruption on Feb. 25 in line with Manila Electric Company’s maintenance activities in the affected areas. Starting at 12:01 a.m. on February 25, the power service interruption will affect portions of Quarry Road from Manila East Road...
Reiterating her stance against Charter change (Cha-cha), Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Friday, Feb. 16 that the consumers' experience of power instabilities under public utilities despite foreign involvement was a clear indication of "failure". She says that this is contrary to the claims that...
Cleansing from misdeeds as well as review of categorization of the country’s more than 120 electric cooperatives (ECs) are being pushed following reports of less-than-desired operational outcomes of these power utilities. The call was put forward by Senate Committee on Energy Vice Chairman...
West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. continues its pressure testing in Quezon City, affecting several barangays in the coming week. According to Maynilad, the pressure testing will begin Monday, Jan. 22 and will be done during the late evenings to early mornings to avoid further...
Razon-led east zone water concessionaire Manila Water Co. Inc. announced water interruptions in Rizal and Pasig City. Starting Thursday, Jan. 18 until Jan. 23, several barangays will undergo line meter, maintenance, and strainer declogging to improve their services in the eastern parts of Metro...
West zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. announced week-long water interruptions to affect Quezon City. Starting Monday, Jan. 8, Maynilad will conduct pressure testing activities that validate the supply flows within barangays. According to the water concessionaire, the maintenance...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Residents of Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental – the first municipality after the last barangay in the eastern part of this city – slammed water interruption during Christmas on social media. A netizen said in an online post that the water interruption started on December 23....
ILOILO CITY – The management of the three Iloilo Electric Cooperatives has assured no major power interruptions in this province this holiday season. “There are no scheduled power interruptions,” said James Balsomo, general manager of ILECO-III, in a joint year-end report to the Iloilo media....
LIPA CITY – Residents from various municipalities appealed for better service from the local power cooperative following recurring outages that have hit the province. Residents specifically asked Batangas II Electric Cooperative (Batelec II) which is the distributor of electric power to San Juan,...
The city government of Para ñaque announced that the Maynilad Water Services will implement water service interruption in nine communities in the city for nine hours. Maynilad announced that maintenance activity will be conducted at the Villamor pumping station and reservoir on Dec. 18 to...
CAVITE – The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) announced scheduled power interruptions in some areas in the province due to facility maintenance. Some parts of Carmona City will have no electricity from 11:00 p.m. on Nov. 13 to 4:00 a.m. on Nov. 14 to give way to installation of facilities...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is preparing to deploy at least 300 generator sets (gensets) to avert blackouts or power interruption scenarios that could mar the conduct of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) by the end of this month. On top of that,...
