businessweekmindanao: Top Story: Power crisis starts to cripple Mindanao

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Top Story: Power crisis starts to cripple Mindanao

By LEN VELASCO, Reporter
THE projected power shortage is starting to affect major regions in Mindanao with Southern and Central Mindanao areas as among the hardest hit.

Last week, the provinces of Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur and North Cotabato, and the three cities of Cotabato, Marawi and Iligan cities have experienced up to three hours of daily brownouts while Zamboanga Peninsula had one hour outages every day.

Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes said Mindanao and Visayas regions are hardly hit by the looming power crisis due to systems failure of some vital power installations and the impending surge of El Niño phenomenon...Read More

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