Forest fires burn power lines: cause MP electricity shortage
>> Sunday, March 30, 2014
By Gina
Dizon
BONTOC, Mountain Province -- Forest fires
have been ravaging the forests of this mountainous Province resulting to
electric posts getting burned, electric lines getting grounded and
power “tripping” resulting to brown-out affecting thousands
of households.
This, as Mountain
Province Electric Company (MOPRECO) general manager Jude Domoguen and
Provincial Natural Resources Office (PENRO) officer Manny Pogeyed urged
barangay local government units enact rules on forest fire prevention in their
respective ordinances.
Updates during during
separate press conferences conducted here with members of the Montanosa Press
Club that power brown-outs have been noted in Sagada, Besao, Tadian, Sabangan,
Bauko, Bontoc and Natonin the past five days from March 19 to March 23 traced
to forest fires.
Domoguen said power
tripped due to grounded transmission lines and these getting in contact with
the other when electric posts got burned or toppled down due to mountain fires.
The raging mountain
inferno noted in six municipalities of the Province affected electric feeders
1, 2, and 3 and power blackouts to 19,417 household- consumers of the Province.
Power tripping due to
forest fires came earlier than the scheduled National Grid Corporation of the
Philippines (NGCP) brown-out from 7am to 6 pm in March 19 affecting
MOPRECO-serviced areas of the 10 municipalities of the Province.
Power tripped at 1:05
a.m. of March 19 covering Mopreco feeder 3 due to four electric poles burned at
mounts Balitian and Ipis at Bontoc affecting 13,628 consumers in municipalities
Bontoc and Natonin. Power only resumed at 12:14 pm on March 20 after Mopreco
crew have to carry the poles up the mountains and replace the burned electric
posts.
On March 20, another
power interruption was noted at 10:25 am to 11:16 am resulting from a forest
fire at Balili, Bontoc that burned Mopreco’s service drop.
On March 20, power
brown out was noted at 3:20 pm to 7 p.m. in Sagada and Besao due to the burning
of three electric posts at mount Ampanga at Antadao, Sagada affecting 5,100
consumers.
A power interruption
was noted in Sabangan near the vicinity of TESDA building due to the burning of
one electric post from 4:11 am to 9: am on same day of March 22.
Still on the same day,
another electric tripping was noted at 10:30 pm which lasted till 10 o’clock
morning on the next day March 23 due to an electric line hit by a burned tree
at Maba-ay, Bauko traced to a forest fire.
A brief power
interruption was noted at Natonin affecting feeder 3 from 7:00 to 7:11 due to
water-grounded transmission lines.
The brief brown- outs
March 21 were unscheduled NGCP interruptions.
Domoguen said
prevention of forest fires is a “concern of everybody”. He called on barangay
officials to enact their respective ordinances in setting rules on forest
fire prevention.
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