Veco apologizes for brownouts

[randolfrr]

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mao sad dri sa amo, makig kaluha rba dyn ang mcwd ug palong.......hastang paita ngit2x pa wla pa gyud ligo he....

[thelo]

guys, you can try to register their for their Power Outage Advisory or you can register at their Text Notice. just visit Visayan Electric Company - Second largest electric utility in the Philippines. for details...

thanks

[jumble]

same here we're under cebeco

[gikapoy]

lisod i reklamo sa veco kai pay per use man gud
pero ang pldt gali mo down.. reklamo dayon kai monthly ang bayad

[thelo]

libre ra ang Power Outage Advisory. just indicate your name and veco acct.# and your email or mobile number.

hope this helps

[digitalsuperman]

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/power-cut-today

SOUTHERN towns will experience a nine-hour blackout today because the Cebu Electric Cooperative (Cebeco) cannot put off the scheduled maintenance of its power transmission lines.

Provincial Election Supervisor Lionel Marco Castillano met with electric companies yesterday in a bid to prevent more power outages, while the Commission on Elections (Comelec) conducts its last week of voter registration.

Castillano said the Cebeco will try to cut short its blackout, originally scheduled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., so the registration can resume right away.

But Castillano’s advice is for the southern constituents to register after 5 p.m. to make sure they can be accommodated.

Cebeco 1 serves the areas from Carcar City to Barili.

Metro Cebu residents, however, can expect some relief from recent power cuts.

The Visayan Electric Company (Veco) said the lack of power supply in the Cebu-Negros-Panay (CNP) grid in recent days was expected to be addressed last night, with maintenance of the Leyte-Luzon link projected to be finished.


“By the end of the month or the first week of November, the other power plants, which are either de-rated or under preventive maintenance, are scheduled to be online,” said Ethel Natera, Veco spokesperson.

The CNP grid gets its supply from the geothermal plants in Leyte and from Luzon.

Rotating brownouts, lasting at least an hour for every feeder the past few days, resulted from the “non-availability of the Leyte-Luzon HVDC link or transmission line.”

The Luzon link, under preventive maintenance since Oct. 19, allows the CNP grid to draw excess power from Luzon.

Business leaders have repeatedly called attention to the need for more stable power supply. These days, the need is even sharper as Comelec attempts to register thousands of new voters in time for the May 2010 polls.

Comelec will register voters from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., including this weekend, and will stretch until midnight on the last day, Oct. 31.

Those who attended the meeting at the Comelec Provincial Office yesterday were representatives from the Cebeco 1, 2 and 3, Visayan Electric Company (Veco), National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) and the Cebu Utilities Group.

The Cebu City Police Office, represented by Supt. Jun Albotra, also attended the meeting because Castillano asked for security personnel to guard the election offices in the towns when they work late.

The NGCP, said Castillano, told him to expect day-to-day power interruptions because warm weather has driven power consumption up in Cebu, amid a continuing power supply shortage in the Visayas.

Even when Cebu is prioritized, there is not enough power to sustain the entire province.

NGCP was represented by its chief engineer Prospero Salubre.

Castillano also got an assurance that power interruptions may be prevented next year, particularly the election season, because two power plants in Toledo City will start operating. This will bring an additional 200 megawatts.

Recent brownouts were aggravated by maintenance repairs on several power plants in Cebu, Leyte, and Bohol, Natera explained in a separate interview.

But yesterday afternoon, the Luzon link was expected to be back.

She said that power interruptions resulted because Veco had to comply with the request of the NGCP.

The company took over last Jan. 15 from the National Transmission Corp. (Transco) and transmits power from the National Power Corp. to the different distribution utilities like Veco.

The NGCP, Natera said, experienced a 120-mw shortage, particularly during the afternoon and evening, when demand was at its peak.

Veco was advised to deload or refrain from drawing 38.9 mw from the grid, which led to the brownouts. Veco de-loaded its Banilad office (1.5 mw) and used its generator starting at 10 a.m.

She advised customers to adopt energy conservation measures at home or in the office, like using compact fluorescent lamps and turning off of appliances that are not in use.

Castillano said that while Veco granted his request to keep the one-hour brownouts in the cities of Cebu and Mandaue from 11 a.m. to 12 noon only, other areas under its franchise will experience the power interruptions at night, if needed.

The Mactan Electric Cooperative, he added, also assured him that power at Cebu City Hall, where the Comelec holds office, will not be cut off even when the rotation brownouts take effect.

[gikapoy]

libre ra ang Power Outage Advisory. just indicate your name and veco acct.# and your email or mobile number.

hope this helps

kung naa brown out.. less pud ang power comsumption mo apprear sa bill

[stjohnmedrano]

apology accepted, ok rana oi, basta for the better good.

[=zutzhen=]

ahh mao diay karon paku naka matikod dah la man gud naapil amu-a.hehehe,

[peewee_toot]

nka experience jd mi og brownout last friday. hahaiz... 1 hour kapin jd to...