Major Mindanao Power Failures on Eve of Elections

Wow. Nine 138 kV circuits tripped leaving 90% of Mindanao without power? Are you kidding me?

Oh my oh my. Wonder if any of Transco’s bidders saw that. Thanks to Walter for reporting Transco’s statement . And … we need more details on this.

Update: Just an observation for those unfamiliar with the Mindanao system. Nine 138 kV circuits is essentially the whole transmission system. The whole transmission system collapsed!

7 Comments

  1. Posted Oct 29th at 9am | Permalink

    Got here by following you on twitter. That’s a whole lot of power. Probably sabotaged. Happens here all the time. By the way, this is the first blog I’ve seen that uses OpenID for commenting. Interesting! Cheers.

  2. Posted Oct 29th at 9am | Permalink

    Thanks, Dennison. Are you still getting sql errors in commenting on the blog here. Your comment seemed to get thru ok. I’m posting this comment also as a test for myself.

  3. Posted Oct 29th at 9am | Permalink

    I’m turning off a plug-in for Subscribe-to-Comments. That might be problem.

  4. Posted Oct 29th at 9am | Permalink

    Yep. That seemed to fix it. A Wordpress 2.3 compatibility issues I guess.

  5. Posted Oct 29th at 9am | Permalink

    Looks all good now! OpenID does not work though and is giving me errors :(

  6. Nick Nichols
    Posted Oct 29th at 9am | Permalink

    Yeah. I’m now having problems now too. It’s redirecting to my openid provider, trying to process the request, but not doing it successfully. I’ll work on it – if I can’t solve it, I’ll pull the plug on it, unfortunately.

  7. Posted Oct 31st at 12am | Permalink

    Hi Sir Nick,
    This is also a test. By the way, thanks for the link. I should have also asked you for more details on that story, too. :)

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