NAG BLACK OUT ANG CEBU TUNGOD SA TRANSCO

[Melvinthegreat]

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cga nasad diri as fortuna

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siga na guys at 6pm..hehe anyways ask lng ko if somebody here knows where ta pwede ka record and mgtransfer cassette tape to cd and how much? any help is much appreciated..tnx in advance..

[NastyTM]

siga na

[MyMaria]

i was told that there was an advisory in the local paper yesterday but they said the scheduled power outage was supposedly in the morning from 7am til 12noon.. so yeah, hmm...

[Tin_Tin]

power is back again..... oyea....

[clarkhkent]

na sumpay na diay tong naputol nga cable?

[Mr.Ho_chia]

with the power on, i think this thread will die. hehehe. Joke

[jasonrey]

here's what happened:

Blackout hits Cebu, Negros, Panay after power plant trips

By Carla Gomez, Jhunnex Napallacan
Visayas Bureau
Last updated 06:27pm (Mla time) 11/15/2007

CEBU CITY, Philippines -- The blackout that hit the islands of Cebu, Negros and Panay late Thursday afternoon resulted in snarled traffic in Metro Cebu and schools decided to send their students home.

The blackout hit the islands of Negros, Cebu and Panay past 4 p.m. Thursday after the 340-megawatt geothermal power plant in Leyte tripped, said Zosimo Briones, National Transmission Company (Transco) Bacolod general manager.

Briones said the 340-megawatt geothermal power plant in Leyte tripped at about 4:30, causing power plants in the three islands to overload and shut down.

He said work was being done to start up Palinpinon 1 and 2 in Negros Oriental to restore power to Negros Island.

The Visayan Electric Company (Veco), the private electric utility serving the cities of Cebu, Mandaue, Talisay and five municipalities in Metro Cebu, relied only on the 60 megawatts supplied by the Cebu Private Power Corp., way below the 310 megawatts total requirement.

Veco spokesperson Ethel Natera said there was a problem with Transco’s submarine cable.

Transco-Cebu spokesman Ben Ypil confirmed that the submarine cable that supplies power from Leyte Geothermal power plants to Cebu-Negros-Panay (CNP) grid was down at past 4 p.m.

Ypil said he learned that the submarine cable was restored at 4:46 p.m. Thursday. Power was restored in some areas.

The Transco also supplies power to Mactan Electric Company, Cebu Electric Cooperative 1 and 2 although the Mactan Economic Zone gets their power supply from East Asia Utilities Corp.

As of this posting, Veco reported that they restored power to about 90 percent of its franchise area at 5:40 p.m.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...icle_id=101120