Landowner cuts Agus 1 from power grid

Almost 30 megawatts (MW) from the Agus 1 hydroelectric plant was temporarily unavailable to the Mindanao grid on Tuesday after an uncooperative landowner refused to allow line maintenance and repair activities, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said .

It identified the landowner as Mitmug Dimaampao, said to be the “same landowner who previously barred NGCP linemen from entering the property to cut trees which obstruct the transmission lines.”