Comments on: Brownouts http://asianenergyadvisors.com/2007/06/30/brownouts/ Focused on the Philippine Electricity Sector Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:56:48 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nick Nichols http://asianenergyadvisors.com/2007/06/30/brownouts/comment-page-1/#comment-22463 Nick Nichols Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:50:01 +0000 http://asianenergyadvisors.com/2007/06/30/brownouts/#comment-22463 Well, now that we had an 8 hour brownout again this weekend and now that I found out it was because of a Transco maintenance activity, this is now making sense. These outages are probably related to Transco maintenance and Transco is trying to schedule the outage to be as less disruptive as possible on retail customers - thus the "odd" times. Odd meaning - not coming at peak supply times when deficient supply or facility overload outages usually occur. Well, now that we had an 8 hour brownout again this weekend and now that I found out it was because of a Transco maintenance activity, this is now making sense.

These outages are probably related to Transco maintenance and Transco is trying to schedule the outage to be as less disruptive as possible on retail customers – thus the “odd” times. Odd meaning – not coming at peak supply times when deficient supply or facility overload outages usually occur.

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