The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has announced scheduled power maintenance in several cities, municipalities, and provinces across Luzon.Starting Wednesday, January 8, Balara, Quezon City, and Mendez-Nuñez, Indang, Cavite, will experience the first round of maintenance. This is due to pole...
ILOILO CITY – To avoid a repeat of the massive blackouts that affected Iloilo and Panay Island last year, MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) urged the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) to complete its substation in this city.A LINEMAN of MORE Power in...
TACLOBAN CITY - The province of Leyte was hit by an unscheduled 11-hour power interruption on New Year's Eve.The outage affected the whole coverage area of the Leyte Electric Cooperative II. It affected Tacloban City, Babatngon, and Palo beginning around 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.The...
The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) reported that it has restored power to thousands of consumers affected by severe tropical storm Kristine. As of noon Thursday, Oct. 24, Meralco said that 397,129 customers remain without electricity, but this number is steadily decreasing from 535,000...
BACOLOD CITY – Power was fully restored in three areas in northern Negros Occidental on Friday, Oct. 18, three days after a series of power outages.POWER was restored in northern Negros Occidental after three days. (Noneco)In a statement, the Northern Negros Electric Cooperative (Noneco) announced...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Electric Power Corp. (NEPC/Negros Power) restored power to more than 40,000 consumers here on Monday, August 26, five days after a series of power outages triggered by the shutdown of the Alijis substation on Wednesday, August 21.ROEL Castro (left), president and chief...
BACOLOD CITY – At least 47,000 households or 22 percent of the 224,000 consumers served by the Negros Electric and Power Corp. (NEPC/Negros Power) have been affected by the widespread unscheduled power interruption here since Wednesday night, August 21.AN employee of the Negros Electric and...
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...
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...
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,...
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...