BROWN OUT: Grid Maintenance Schedule

BROWN OUT: Grid Maintenance Schedule
 
This is a public service announcement.

Scheduled power interruption in the following areas:

•  entire Cagayan
•  Kalinga
•  Apayao 
•  and parts of Isabela

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) serves notice of the
scheduled shutdown of some of its transmission facilities in the said areas:

Date: 11 October 2012

Time: 6:00 AM – 6:30 PM

Affected Distribution Utility: 

• * Isabela Electric Cooperative I (ISELCO I), Isabela 
•   Electric Cooperative II (ISELCO II)
•   Cagayan Electric Cooperative I (CAGELCO I),
•   Cagayan Electric Cooperative II (CAGELCO II), 
•   Kalinga Electric Cooperative (KAELCO)

Reason: Annual preventive maintenance of power transformer and its associated
equipment at Gamu and Santiago Substations; simultaneous with replacement of
selected transmission line hardwares along Santiago-Gamu 230kV line.

Normal operations will immediately resume after work completion. NGCP’s
customers and the general public are advised to take the necessary preparations and
precautions for this scheduled interruption.

*Specific cities and municipalities to be affected by the power interruption are
determined by the abovementioned Distribution Utility (DU), unless the activity affects
the entire franchise area. The DU allots the available power within its franchise area
and implements the power interruption schedule among the end-users.