5-hr brownouts implemented in Zambo Sur
- Source:http://www.mb.com.ph/5-hr-brownouts-implemented-in-zambo-sur/
- Friday, April 22, 2016
- (Philippines News Agency)
Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur – The local electric cooperative here has implemented daily rotational brownouts of as long as five hours after one of its power providers had to undergo an emergency shutdown.
Liberal Cabatcha, Zamboanga del Sur Electric Cooperative-1 (Zamsureco-1) spokesman, on Monday said that the emergency shutdown came after one of the four units of the Therma South Power Station conked out last week.
Cabatcha said the Davao del Sur-based Therma South power plant supplies 10 megawatts (MW) of the 34 MW-power demand of Zamsureco-1.
Cabatcha said they had to implement the four- to five-hour daily rotational brownouts to enable them to serve all the consumers of Zamsureco-1.
The schedule of rotational brownouts is two to three hours in the morning and one to two hours in the afternoon.
Cabatcha said they have not received notice from the power provider as to how long it will take to complete the repair works on the power station.
Zamsureco-1 serves this city and 24 of the 26 towns of this province with 69,857 active connections.