We were told last month about daily brown-outs scheduled for every day over the next month. I say ‘told’ but we really found out on the first day of brownouts and then in the Manila newspaper that same day. They’re finally fixing the same lines they ‘fixed’ over the last 4 months of scheduled brownouts.
At the risk of sounding critical of the infrastructure management going on here – remember this: we could routinely bypass the power for the entire Green Zone (IZ) in Baghdad with about 200x more usage…. bypassing all existing grids … and maintaining smaller loops of active current while repairing the main system. Daily. It took a long time to finally upgrade the system but we never had outages on this magnitude and that was in warzone with minimal resources.
Schedule? Monday – Friday 0830 am to 1730pm. Saturday is halfday, their choice of hours. Sunday is off for them so we get to keep juice. The biggest irony? The only office of Akelco (power company) is also completely without electricity during a brownout. Its pretty humorous really.
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