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Meralco: NAIA power outage caused by ‘trouble on customer's loadside’


The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) on Sunday morning clarified that the five-hour power outage at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport was not its fault.

"Medyo kailangan nating i-clarify iyan. Tulad nga nang sinabi ko noong aming i-check ay hindi na ho Meralco side iyon," Meralco's spokesperson Joe Zaldarriaga told radio dzBB.

Zaldarriaga was reacting to a statement by the Manila International Airport Authority that the power outage at the NAIA Terminal 3 was caused by "a technical glitch with the airport's electric source."

The MIAA added: "A substation of Meralco at NAIA tripped causing Terminal 3 to lose power at 8:45 PM, Saturday. The substation was able to relay stable power to the terminal starting 12:30 a.m."

Zaldarriaga admitted that a substation of the company tripped "pero after that na-restore naman, that was just I think less than a minute."

He added that power supply in the areas being serviced by the substation was fully restored before 1 a.m.

"That's why I'm saying base sa ating analysis ang naging trouble, it must have been on the customer's loadside," he said.

He further explained: "Ang loadside, kung may bahay ka sa metering point that is the Meralco jurisdiction. Ang linya papasok sa loob ng bahay, that becomes the juristdicion of the customer."

In a separate interview over radio dzBB, Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said that a second power outage inside the airport happened at around 5 a.m.

Abaya said the problem was immediately addressed by the airport's management.

Asked for comment, Zaldarriaga reiterated that the second power outage could be attributed to the trouble with the airport's loadside.

He said that they did not receive any report of any trouble at the substation after the power supply in the area was fully restored before 1 a.m. —ALG, GMA News

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