Meralco: Predawn brownout due to 'sudden plant outage'

Published July 18, 2014 5:48am

A brownout hit parts of areas serviced by the Manila Electric Co. before dawn Friday, with the utility company tracing it to a "sudden plant outage."

Meralco, in posts on its Twitter account, said the emergency power interruption occurred at 2:47 a.m.

The power distributor did not specify which areas of its franchise area were affected by the brownout.

Meralco later tweeted the interruption was "due to a sudden plant outage," adding power was restored 3:30 a.m.

On Thursday, Meralco said transmission outages of some plants may cause it to implement three-hour emergency rotating brownouts for the day.

At the time, it said the brownouts will affect parts of Manila, Makati, Quezon City, Bulacan and Pasay City.

Meralco spokesman Joe Zaldarriaga had said power had been restored to 81 percent of Metro Manila, but only to 64 percent of its overall franchise area.

Zaldarriaga said that as of Thursday, areas still without power include:

- Camanava (Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, Valenzuela)

- parts of Quezon City

- Parañaque City

- Alabang, Muntinlupa City

- parts of Manila

— Joel Locsin/ELR, GMA News

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