By Cris Diaz
The two groups will
alternate the daily brownout – for instance, the brownout on Thursday morning
started in areas assigned under Feeder 1. On the following day, a Friday, the
areas under Feeder 2 will start the brownout in the morning, followed by Feeder
1 at noon until the afternoon.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY,
May 15 (PNA) -– The Cagayan De Oro Electric Power and Light Company (CEPALCO)
on Thursday released a new rotating power outage schedule in this trading hub
of Northern Mindanao starting May 15 until May 21.
CEPALCO has divided
the entire Cagayan De Oro district into two major power shedding feeders – each
group would experience a total daily alternate 10-hour power outage starting
8:00 a.m. until 10:30 in the evening.
This means that areas
under Feeder 1 will have brownout from 8:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. while areas
belonging to Feeder 2 will have brownout from 11:30 a.m.until 3:00 p.m.and back
to Feeder 1 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.before changing to Feeder 2 brownout out
from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
However, CEPALCO
advised residents in Cagayan De Oro City to not rely on the scheduled brownout
since the power supply would always depend on the power allocation extended by
the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) which changes every
hour.
“Most of the time,
the brownout in Cagayan De Oro City extends beyond the schedule because of the
NGCP allocation,” an official from the CEPALCO, the lone power distributor here
said.
In the notice of
power interruptions, CEPALCO said that the “actual switch-off, and switch on”
of the power supply would change without prior notice.
CEPALCO said that the
continuing power interruption in Cagayan De Oro City was due to shortage of
power allocation supplied by the NGCP.
Cagayan De Oro City
needs 140 megawatt daily to ensure a continued supply of power. In contrast,
the NGCP provides only 30 to 38 megawatt power supply daily, CEPALCO said.
(PNA)
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