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THE power crisis on Panay Island last week, which took three days to completely resolve and at one point left the entire island without any electricity at all for a couple of hours, was primarily the fault of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP). The grid operator did not secure adequate reserve power supplies to manage normal demand at the time and certainly did not have reserves it could call upon in case of even a moderate problem, which was encountered at 12:06 p.m. on January 2 with the tripping of the Panay Energy Development Corp. (PEDC) Unit 1 due to a mechanical failure.
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