Second of 3 parts

THE most essential question raised by the three-day power crisis on Panay Island last week is, of course, "Why did it happen?" That is rather unhelpfully broad, however, so in order to understand the event with a view toward taking necessary steps to prevent it from happening again, we have to ask some more specific questions. As I said in the first part of this analysis on Tuesday, there are a number of questions that do not have answers yet, but the timeline of events and the data that supports it, along with a basic understanding of how electricity grids work, answers the most important ones.

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