ANGELES CITY- Power outages are slated today, May 20, in seven towns in Pampanga and three in Zambales.
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) announced yesterday that two-hour power outage, from 6 to 8 a.m. today in areas served by the Pampanga Electric Cooperative 2 and the San Fernando Electric Light and Power Company, Inc.
The areas to be affected include Bacolor, Sta. Rita, Sasmuan, Porac, Lubao, Guagua, and Floridablanca. The power outage is to “facilitate correction of critical hot spot at Remedios DS terminal pad and retightening of bolts and nuts of strain clamp along Hermosa-Guagua 69 KV line.”
Also today in Zambales, power outage is slated from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in areas served by the Zambales 1 Electric Cooperative, Inc., affecting the towns of Candelaria, Masinloc, and Sta. Cruz.
“This is to facilitate replacement of old wood poles along Botolan-Candelaria 69kVLine,” NCGP said. NGGCP also said “normal operations will immediately resume after work completion” and that “customers and the general public are advised to take the necessary preparations and precautions for this scheduled interruption.”
