NGCP lifts yellow alert advisory in Visayas grid

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 04/18/2016

THE NATIONAL Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) lifted the yellow alert in the Visayas after achieving enough power reserves on Saturday night. NGCP announced the lifting of the alert on its Facebook page. Betty Martinez, information…

Election materials, power assured for May 9 polls

Apple Ta-as 04/07/2016

DELIVERY of the election paraphernalia from Manila to Cebu for the May 9 elections will be made this month, the shipping firm contracted for the job said yesterday. “As far as the delivery and deployment, we are…

No brownouts, NGCP assures

Vanessa Claire Lucero 01/07/2016

DESPITE recording a negative gross reserve of 13 megawatts (MW) for the Visayas yesterday, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) assured that there will be no outages in the grid. On its Twitter account, NGCP…

Mandaue, Liloan hit by outages

Aileen Garcia-Yap 10/21/2015

Underground cable line of NGCP tripped, says Veco; power restored same day Hours-long brownouts  yesterday affected most of Mandaue City and  Liloan town in northern Cebu after an underground cable line tripped. Areas starting from Paknaan in…

Line tripping causes brownout in northern Cebu

Aileen Garcia-Yap 10/20/2015

While there was no power shortage yesterday, the northern part of Cebu served by the Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) experienced a brownout. Areas starting from Paknaan in Mandaue City all the way to Liloan town in Cebu…

Brownouts today due to power shortage

06/01/2015

Several areas within the franchise area of the Visayan Electric Co. will experience brownouts due to a power shortage. The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines issued a “power shortage system” alarm to Veco and only gave…

Brownouts loom if plant repair not done this month

Doris C. Bongcac 02/06/2014

Repairs of the geothermal plant in Leyte will have to be completed this month to ensure that the Visayas grid meets a  15 to 20 percent increase in power demand during the summer months, energy officials said…

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