Series of brownouts to hit Mindanao starting Thursday

KIDAPAWAN CITY — Mindanao will experience a series of brownouts starting today as the National Grid Corporation in the Philippines (NGCP) conducts maintenance work on their power barges. Engr. Felix Canja, spokesperson of the Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) said NGCP will reduce by 350 megawatts the power it supplies to various electric cooperatives, thus affecting power consumers all over Mindanao. Canja said their firm will force to implement a 30-minute to one-hour power curtailment as the power barges in Pulangi 4 and Agos 2 undergo maintenance work. Canja said the maintenance is part of the company’s social responsibility to improve its services to various cooperatives. “We have nothing to do but to follow the advisory rather than suffering long hours of power fluctuations in the coming days," Canja said. Canja could not yet say until when the series of brownouts would last. “We will inform our concessionaries the soonest possible time when power services in our area will back to its normal operation," Canja said.– VVP, GMANews.TV