I received an email from a friend today regarding brown-out schedule and I’m happy to find out that there will be no power curtailments starting May 9 until May 11 due to national elections. I hope CEPALCO will truly follow what is on their memo. Anyway, it’s not a happy ending yet since brown-outs will have to resume on May 12, 2010.
Below is the copy of CEPALCO’s memo:
As relayed by NGCP to CEPALCO, there will be NO power curtailments for the period May 9 to 11 [Sun-Mon-Tues] to ensure continuous power supply in Mindanao for the May 10 national elections. Power curtailments will resume on May 12.
Please find below the load shedding schedule / guide [5 hours DAILY rotating brownouts] within the CEPALCO service area for the period May 8 to 16, 2010 due to the continuing power supply curtailments imposed by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines [NGCP] all over Mindanao. Again, CEPALCO would like to caution customers that the actual switch off and switch on time may vary from the announced schedule depending on the actual load curtailment levels imposed by NGCP on CEPALCO on a day to day basis.
Group A Schedule:
May 8 & 14, 2010 – 6:00 – 11:00 PM
May 12 & 15, 2010 – 1:00 – 6:00 PM
May 13 & 16, 2010 – 8:00 – 1:00 PM
Group B Schedule:
May 8 & 14, 2010 – 8:00 – 1:00 PM
May 12 & 15, 2010 – 6:00 – 11:00 PM
May 13 & 16, 2010 – 1:00 – 6:00 PM
Group C Schedule:
May 8 & 14, 2010 – 1:00 – 6:00 PM
May 12 & 15, 2010 – 8:00 – 1:00 PM
May 13 & 16, 2010 – 6:00 – 11:00 PM