Emergency Best Posts in Thread: BROWN-OUT AGAIN!

I am hesitant to get a generator, mostly because I fear the cure (noise) might be worse than the illness (no power).

 

ReJoice about ten years ago. Do not remember what I paid for it. I will guess it was between $400 and $500.
Hope that helps.

 

You can also consider a battery backed uninterruptible power source (UPS). This will manage most brownouts which last less than an hour. This will power a couple of monitors, the computer, one LED light and the Internet modem.

No downtime required for the generator to power up, no noise, fuel, fumes, etc.

 

10 and a half hours on the Gen-Set. The "Best & Strong" handled it using about 15 liters of petrol.

 

Agree. The rates charged by NORECO are in the area of 10php per kilowatt hour. That is very high in comparison to other countries, double that of the US. That is not to say NORECO should be as cheap as the US but considering that the source is also very cheap geothermal energy and much lower labor rates, they should comparatively have a fairly good amount of funds to work with.

And we do see improvements in the distribution such as the replacement of wood power poles with the steel structures. However, the fact is that with all of that improvement, the frequency of brown outs is getting worse.

I remember that China was in a similar situation prior to their expansion to become a market economy but as that country grew, the brown outs became less and less; I suppose that was due to demand by the new manufacturing companies that energy become more reliable. In the Phils we are also expanding economically to favor market expansion and indeed, efforts are being taken to support that such as internet bandwidth improvement. But the power grid remains locked in 1940’s technology.

We look forward to a time when improvements in that sector improve; cheap energy (such as nuclear) would appear not to be the answer. It seems to be more than that, such as a goal to have near zero brown outs, perhaps by redundant systems to take over when systems go down, and by ending highly disruptive practices such as blacking out entire regions for system maintenance as is being done today.


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