Six-hour rotational blackout affects Pagadian City business sector

ZAMSURECO 1 Electric coop GM Jose Raul A. Saniel (right)

(Photo by JONG CADION)

 

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, March 3 (PNA) -– The business sector as well as the local electric firm are incurring huge losses due to the implementation of the six-hour rotational blackout in this province.

The six-hour rotational blackout is being implemented since Friday, February 28, due to “line disturbance.”

Pagadian City-Zamboanga del Sur Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Incorporated president Mercedes Lourdes Quisumbing said the rotational blackout greatly affects the business community but did not give any estimate.

Zamboanga del Sur Electric Cooperative–I (Zamsureco-I) information officer Liberal Cabatcha said they incur losses of at least P1 million daily.

Cabatcha said that one of the reasons Zamsureco-I consumers are experiencing a six-hour daily rotational blackout is that there is no power transmission from the Mindanao Grid’s Iligan City to the Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur sub-station section for “unknown reasons.”

Cabatcha said that the Zamboanga Peninsula area is being supplied at present by the Western Mindanao Power Corporation (WMPC) that owns a 100-megawatt power plant in Barangay Sangali, Zamboanga City.

The six-hour rotational blackout is being implemented in three frequencies at two hours per frequency. (PNA)
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