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abtest

Power out for 400,000 Meralco customers due to 'Kristine'

October 25, 2024 - 10:52am

More than 400,000 households served by the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) remained without power this Friday morning, October...

Business

Tropical Storm Kristine downs 10 power lines

By Cristina Chi | October 23, 2024 - 1:05pm

Tropical Storm Kristine (international name: Trami) has caused outages for nine 69-kilovolt (kV) transmission lines across Luzon...

Business

2.4 million Meralco customers hit by power outages

By Richmond Mercurio | October 30, 2022 - 12:00am

Severe Tropical Storm Paeng caused power interruptions in the franchise area of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) yesterday and affected 2.24 million customers.

Nation

Public warned anew: Power outage possible during summer, including election day

By Angelica Y. Yang | March 30, 2022 - 3:10pm

Manila-based policy group Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) repeated its projections on Wednesday that...

Headlines

ERC fines 10 firms for having too many power outages in 2021

By Angelica Y. Yang | February 7, 2022 - 2:02pm

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has imposed a penalty totaling P15.5 million on ten generation companies for breaching...

Business

Duterte: I don’t want rotational outages

By Alexis Romero | June 29, 2021 - 12:00am

President Duterte wants energy authorities to ensure there would be no more rotational power outages in the country, Malacañang...

Headlines

Luzon power plants asked to explain more frequent shutdowns

By Ramon Royandoyan | June 7, 2021 - 1:15pm

Energy regulators are asking power generation companies in Luzon to explain why unplanned plant shutdowns that prompted rotational...

Business

Blackouts hit Mindanao provinces

By Danessa Rivera | January 20, 2021 - 12:00am

Power outages hit areas in northwestern Mindanao after unidentified men sabotaged the power lines of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines yesterday.

Nation

Deadly sin of delays

By Rey Gamboa | May 2, 2019 - 12:00am

This year’s Lenten season is over, yet we’re still fervently praying. This time, it’s not about putting an end to water shortages, but also to power outages, something that’s happening because...

Business

Electricity blackouts can mar Election Day

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | April 12, 2019 - 12:00am

Classrooms used as polling precincts mostly are dark and humid. Electric fans and rechargeable lamps that election-supervising teachers plug in do little to allay voters’ anxiety.

Opinion