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If there is enough capacity, why the brown-outs?

Today, October 15, 2010, the Mindanao Grid has a dependable capacity of 1, 178.5 Mw. It also has an additional capacity of 166 Mw from the embedded generating untis. These embedded generating units are capacities of distribution utilities and/or cooperatives … Continue reading

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Power Crisis In Mindanao: ECHEL! Brown-out, anyone?

Today I think about the countless families and households burdened by the irregular and invasive brown-outs. I think about the school children who will have to literally burn candles in order to do their homeworks. And I think about the … Continue reading

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