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Article: Brownouts hit Metro Manila, Rizal province
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- The Manila Times
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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The eastern portion of Metro Manila, already battered by heavy floods, experienced rotating brownouts triggered by a breakdown in a substation run by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).
At about 8:48 p.m. Wednesday, one of the four 300-megavolt ampere transformers at the grid's Dolores substation in Taytay, Rizal, caught fire, tripping of the other transformers and the 115-kilovolt power lines leading to the Manila Electric Co.'s (Meralco) franchise area. The fire was contained at about 10:30 p.m.
The damaged power facilities resulted in rotating brownouts in the cities of Pasig, Marikina and San Juan in Metro Manila and in Cainta, Rizal province-all areas that are ...