Mindanao outage traced to power shortfall, plant tripping

WITH power supply in the Mindanao grid already fragile and inadequate, the tripping of the 80-MW Agus I caused an island-wide outage that government said it has already resolved as of early morning on Friday.

Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla called an emergency meeting of the power suppliers in Mindanao yesterday and said initial investigation showed that a circuit breaker opened at the 80-megawatt Agus 1 power plant located at the mouth of Lanao lake in Marawi City, downing five other plants in the region.