Winds topple power line, trigger blackout in Negros Oriental
Strong winds toppled power lines and caused a 17-hour blackout in Dumaguete City and at least eight other areas in Negros Oriental province Thursday, an online news site reported Friday.
Visayan Daily Star (www.visayandailystar.com) reported the affected transmission line of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines was in Basiao village in San Jose town.
Affected were Dumaguete City, Sibulan, San Jose, part of Amlan town up to Tandayag, Valencia, Bacong, Dauin, Zamboanguita and Siaton.
The report said the winds toppled the power line at dawn Thursday. Power was restored at about 9:30 p.m.
NGCP sub-station transmission engineer Sonia Ruiz said the 69-KV structure in Basiao was already unstable before it gave in to strong winds.
Ruiz said they discovered unknown people, possibly people who use the wires to make crude fishing spears, had snipped off the guy wires holding the two-pole structure earlier.
Only three of the original eight strands of guy wires kept the poles upright, making the structure unsound, she said.
The Basiao transmission line supplies direct power to the Negros Oriental 2 Electric Cooperative and huge industries such as the Dumaguete Coconut Mills Inc. and Orica Nitrates in Bacong town. - GMANews.TV
Visayan Daily Star (www.visayandailystar.com) reported the affected transmission line of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines was in Basiao village in San Jose town.
Affected were Dumaguete City, Sibulan, San Jose, part of Amlan town up to Tandayag, Valencia, Bacong, Dauin, Zamboanguita and Siaton.
The report said the winds toppled the power line at dawn Thursday. Power was restored at about 9:30 p.m.
NGCP sub-station transmission engineer Sonia Ruiz said the 69-KV structure in Basiao was already unstable before it gave in to strong winds.
Ruiz said they discovered unknown people, possibly people who use the wires to make crude fishing spears, had snipped off the guy wires holding the two-pole structure earlier.
Only three of the original eight strands of guy wires kept the poles upright, making the structure unsound, she said.
The Basiao transmission line supplies direct power to the Negros Oriental 2 Electric Cooperative and huge industries such as the Dumaguete Coconut Mills Inc. and Orica Nitrates in Bacong town. - GMANews.TV
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