Visayas Blackout
A 10-hour blackout swept the entire Visayas yesterday due to a reported fault in the transmission line of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines.
Affected were the islands of Panay, Guimaras, Cebu, Negros, Bohol, Siquijor, Leyte, Samar and Biliran. At 6PM yesterday, power was fully restored in Cebu, Leyte, Samar and Bohol; the Negros provinces, 65 percent, and Panay Island, 40 percent.
National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) principal engineer Glen Bulfa said there was a line tripping in one of the transmission lines connecting the Marshall sub-stations to the Tabango sub-station in Leyte and about 600 megawatts of power supply from Leyte was cut as a result.
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April 26th, 2009 at 8:57 am
kainis ng blackout kahapon…. ang tagal-tagal dito sa amin ng blackout…
April 26th, 2009 at 11:06 am
The Philippines has one of the highest electricity rates in Asia. A 20 percent rate increase was just announced. And now a 10 HOUR blackout across the entire region?? Unbeleivable…
April 26th, 2009 at 11:27 am
The Philippines has one of the highest electricity rates in Asia. A 20 percent rate increase was just announced. And now a 10 HOUR blackout across the entire region?? Unbeleivable…
April 26th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
so malaking tipid yan sa maga consumers….imagine, 10 hours na nakatipid sila, malaking bagay yun para sa mga nagtitipid sa kuryente.
April 26th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
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April 26th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
@ tipitipitim….. hoy hindi mo alam ang taas kaya dito sa visayas ng presyo ng kuryente.. alam mo ba na sa negros dito mahal mahal ng kuryente….
April 26th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
@ NesTy
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Kadtong hinampak nga blackout tungod to sa mga taong masasarap ang buhay. Magsigue lang gamit ug kuryente ang mga hinampak. Kanang mga mayaman ug maggamit gani sa sila ug electricity magdungan gyud na sila.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Living in Dumaguete, we are used to blackouts almost daily, sometimes several times a day lasting anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 hours plus scheduled brownouts on Sundays. However, this blackout lasted 24 hours overall for us.. three hours Saturday morning, then current for two hours then blackout again until Sunday morning. The irony is that we are only a few kilometers from the geothermal plant in Valencia.
Hopefully when Cebu and Panay upgrade their systems to fulfill their needs then Negros will be able to keep the power being generated on the island instead of sending it to a politically more important province that taxes the system due to poor planning and a disproportionate use of resources.
By the way, there is an error in the story: Siquijor is not connected to the national grid in any way so it was not affected. If there was a blackout on Siquijor it was “business as usual”