Last night the temperature was around 31-degrees Celsius. Would have been ok then there was a power outage - for 4 freaking hours until 5 in the morning. Needless to say sleep wasn't going to be part of the menu and it wasn't.
Which is kind of ironic since the DOE expects stable power supply in Visayas. Ah wait the operative word there is "expects," which means they hope there would be enough power but they're not exactly praying for it.
Electricity, or rather the lack thereof has always been the problem in the country since back in the 90's. I still remember those marathon 8 to 12 hour rolling black-outs which hit Metro Manila back then. It wasn't exactly rolling since we always got hit everyday.
The problem then, as it still is now is the demand was greater than the supply. well duh. Of course it didn't help one bit that surprise surprise the big power generators all went down for either maintenance or because something was broken.
And the fact you paid high power rates sure did not make it any better. The problem isn't just because of power generation - it's also about power distribution. When you walk anywhere, but more so in Manila, power lines just seem to pile on top of one another and seem to go on and on - a massive twisted jungle of wires that seem to be haphazardly put together, which it was.
Then also the fact that Filipinos being Filipinos we tend to steal our power and we're so darned proud of it. What we don't realize is that this results in higher costs of electricity - what they call system loss.
But let's not limit the blame to just that. Napocor and the other power companies are not totally safe from blame. There is no long term planning in terms of efficient power generation and distribution.
Yes, we use state of the art computers and technologies but it's all mish-mashed together with antiquated machineries and distribution systems.
No wonder we pay one of the highest power rates in the world. Yay we one of the tops again in the world - if only it were for something we can be proud of.
And of course as consumers we are even paying for power we don't use - the so called PPA or Purchased Power Adjustment.
Well why not, we pay for government ghost employees so why not pay for ghost power.
Which is kind of ironic since the DOE expects stable power supply in Visayas. Ah wait the operative word there is "expects," which means they hope there would be enough power but they're not exactly praying for it.
Electricity, or rather the lack thereof has always been the problem in the country since back in the 90's. I still remember those marathon 8 to 12 hour rolling black-outs which hit Metro Manila back then. It wasn't exactly rolling since we always got hit everyday.
The problem then, as it still is now is the demand was greater than the supply. well duh. Of course it didn't help one bit that surprise surprise the big power generators all went down for either maintenance or because something was broken.
And the fact you paid high power rates sure did not make it any better. The problem isn't just because of power generation - it's also about power distribution. When you walk anywhere, but more so in Manila, power lines just seem to pile on top of one another and seem to go on and on - a massive twisted jungle of wires that seem to be haphazardly put together, which it was.
Then also the fact that Filipinos being Filipinos we tend to steal our power and we're so darned proud of it. What we don't realize is that this results in higher costs of electricity - what they call system loss.
But let's not limit the blame to just that. Napocor and the other power companies are not totally safe from blame. There is no long term planning in terms of efficient power generation and distribution.
Yes, we use state of the art computers and technologies but it's all mish-mashed together with antiquated machineries and distribution systems.
No wonder we pay one of the highest power rates in the world. Yay we one of the tops again in the world - if only it were for something we can be proud of.
And of course as consumers we are even paying for power we don't use - the so called PPA or Purchased Power Adjustment.
Well why not, we pay for government ghost employees so why not pay for ghost power.
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