Three-hour power curtailment hits Zamsureco-1

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Dec. 16 (PNA) -– The Christmas season in this city and the entire province as well as in some other parts of Mindanao will not be so lively as in the past years.

            

This as the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) implemented effective on Monday a power curtailment as the Pulangi IV hydroelectric power plant in Bukidnon is functioning way below its capacity.

Liberal Cabatcha, Zamboanga del Sur Electric Cooperative-1 (Zamsureco-1) information officer, said Tuesday he was informed that the 250-megawatt Pulangi IV could only generate 20-MW.

Cabatcha explained that in case of Zamsureco-1, the member-consumers will experience three-hour blackout daily since the cooperative is only receiving power supply of 22-MW a day.

He said the power demand of the Zamsureco-1 member-consumers is 30-mw. The cooperative serves 69,857 connections in this city and 24 of the 26 towns of this province.

He said they have no information yet as to when the power situation will be normalized. (PNA)
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