City wide, and Bacong too, and........it's scheduled to be turned off this Sunday too for "tree trimming".

 

Noreco II - Still useless after all there years

 

It is inutil to say the very least. Can't the city find another power provider? Noreco II obviously needs to shape up ASAP. What's the real score? They usually blame the trees for their incompetence. Are all the black-outs caused by falling trees or are there other hidden reasons that we don't know?

 

Last Sunday 8am to Mon 12:30am Total Blackout

Mon to Wed On and Off blackout
Thu today 4am to 9:25pm Blackout, power come back 9:16 pm dead after 5min, then power came back after around 10mins.

 

called home today, too, in sibulan and still they don't have power then.

 

Blackout cripples 8 towns, 1 city in Negros
source: Sunstar (Transmission line collapse causes 17-hour power outage | Sun.Star Network Online)

DUMAGUETE – Strong winds toppled a main power transmission tower in Negros Oriental causing a 17-hour power interruption in Dumaguete City and eight municipalities on Thursday.

The transmission line is located in Barangay Basiao in San Jose town and owned by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).

Power was restored around 9 p.m. Thursday but after 15 minutes, the power went out again. Electricity became available again by 9:30 p.m.

Sonia Ruiz, transmission line engineer of the NGCP sub-station in Tandayag, Amlan, Negros Oriental, said the 69 KV structure in Basiao was already unstable before it finally gave in to strong winds.

She said they had discovered that the guy wires holding the two-pole structure had been snipped off by unknown persons earlier.

Only three of the original eight strands of guy wires kept the poles upright, rendering the structure unsound, Ruiz said.

NGCP maintenance crew worked the whole day to ferry on foot two replacement steel posts and other replacement parts to the hilltop tower site in Basiao as the area cannot be accessed by vehicles.

Ruiz said pilferage of their posts is very common as the people who steal them use the guy wires for makeshift fishing spears.

Affected by the power outage were Dumaguete City and the towns of Sibulan, San Jose, Amlan, Valencia, Bacong, Dauin, Zamboanguita and Siaton.

The Basiao transmission line supplies direct power to the Negros Oriental 2 Electric Cooperative and huge industries such as the Dumaguete Coconut Mills Inc. (Ducomi) and Orica Nitrates in Bacong town.(PNA/Sunnex)

 

So there...I didn't think there were any fish left to spear anyway.Unless you want to throw spears at cans of pilchards and tuna for target practice!