Tag Archives: Transmission

Three Transco Towers Bombed

For the third time in less then ten months, very large, lattice-steel, double-circuit 138 kV transmission towers - the highest capacity circuits used by Transco in Mindanao - are bombed. All in the same general vicinity. Here are two reports (seem to have the same information source) on the latest, New Year’s 2008, bombing [...]

Routing Around Regulators

I dislike bashing the ERC staff - it’s almost never called for. But I don’t mind discussing failures of the the ERC as an institution and even then, quite frankly, it’s usually more appropriate to point fingers outside that institution as major culprits.
The ERC has been unable, over the years, to hold NPC/Transco to [...]

Eyeballing the Mindanao Disturbance

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, [...]