Well, it’s the truth, isn’t it; but it’s not the issue. Back in 1995, Dave Winer, a software developer, wrote a blog post entitled “We Make Shitty Software.” I’m repurposing that post because is reminds me of Transco and the Mindanao outage this weekend and of electric utilities in general.
An electric utility is a process; [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Public Utilities Suck
Oct 31st – 11am
Eyeballing the Mindanao Disturbance
Oct 29th – 9pm
OK here’s the best I can do. The maps are a little old.
This Mindanews report says the following lines tripped:
Agus 2-Kibawe lines 1 and 2
Abaga-Agus 2 lines 1 and 2
Abaga-Agus 6 lines 1 and 2
Abaga-Tagoloan
Abaga-Aurora
Abaga-Lugait-Tagoloan
This first graphic is a zoomed in portion of a 2003 Napocor Grid Map showing the central Mindanao area.
Now, [...]
Transmission Development Plans
Oct 29th – 11am
I just uploaded a copy of a presentation on the 2003 Transmission Development Plan. I find these “older” documents quite useful in tracking what we were tracking and looking at at the time.
In addition, this particular presentation has some nice technical summary information on the Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao transmission grids that is helpful if [...]