Countdown to brown out on Boracay
It’s 07:50 am leaving 10 minutes until the official start time of the power outage. They say they’re doing a substation installation and its gonna take 2 months of daily outages. But yesterday, it only lasted about 4 or 5 hours, perhaps less. I even called them and the guy answering was audibly weary of answering that question - yes, there would be many more such outages.
In Baghdad, we supplied a good deal of power to a ton of locations and I can think of a single area that consumed about 10 times more electricity than all of Boracay. It only took a handfull of electricians less than a half day to bypass every existing substation and generator to reinstate power. But Akelco, a government regulated firm, cant get this simple task done with the might of the Philippines government behind it for a tiny island like Boracay? Not for two months? Boracay only has a few single trunks… why not locally installed 1.5 MW generators? they’re pretty much standard every where else in the world… yes, even in third world countries. (but not here apparently). They’re even designed in shipping containers for ease of transport.
Oh well, lets see if the juice goes out again today…during peak usage times.
