COTABATO CITY – A stray bullet from a fatal shooting triggered a fire on a power transmission tower, causing a six-hour brownout across Cotabato City and parts of Maguindanao del Norte and North Cotabato Sunday night. The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines reported an emergency shutdown at...
An unexpected power outage could not have come at a more ironic moment, as the Department of Energy (DOE) experienced a brownout at its own head office in Taguig City during a press briefing led by the DOE chief himself. During a press conference held by Energy Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla,...
Lights on? or lights off? That’s not one of the typical ‘fast talk’ questions being thrown by a country’s well-known television host, rather, that is a state of the country’s power supply that primarily distressed Filipino consumers in this year’s summer months. In the third State of...
While weekends are sacred respite for most families or households, consumers in Luzon cannot rest easy because they can be stricken with the malady of rotational power service interruptions anytime this Saturday following the declaration of new wave of ‘red alert’ in the grid. According to...
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 –...
