DAVAO CITY-Rotating brownouts in the city has affected local businesses with losses estimated at P6-million for every hour of no electricity.
Ivan Cortez, Officer-in Charge of the Davao City Investment and Promotions Center (DCIPC) said that though they have no exact figure on business losses they had estimated losses of earnings of P3-million to P6-million per hour of power interruption.
About one-thirds of businesses in the city face power outages while two-thirds are operating during rotational brownouts in the city.
Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) began implementing six-hour rotational brownouts when the utility firm started receiving just 120 megawatts out of the 280 megawatts contracted from different power sources.
Cortez said that in this power crisis, only responsive businessmen would survive. These are businessmen who go for coping mechanisms to respond to the crisis, one of these mechanisms in buying generator sets.
The crisis has also given opportunities to businesses, as people will now go to the malls to cool down. Having generators is big plus for businesses as people seek establishments who have regular power.
Some businesses have seen increase in sales as people now eat in malls rather than suffering from the sweltering heat in their homes.
Sales of generator sets are in the uptrend with long hours of rotational brown-outs, last Wednesday (May 7) DLPC announced the increase of six hour rotational brownouts to 7.5 hours.
However based on latest data according to DLPC in May 8, one of their sources of power the STEAG State Power Plant in MisamisOriental started to put online 105 megawatts to the Mindanao Grid, this enabled DLPC to avoid implementation of rotational brownouts during off-peak hours. (PIA/RG Alama)
Brownouts take toll on local businesses
DAVAO CITY-Rotating brownouts in the city has affected local businesses with losses estimated at P6-million for every hour of no electricity.
Ivan Cortez, Officer-in Charge of the Davao City Investment and Promotions Center (DCIPC) said that though they have no exact figure on business losses they had estimated losses of earnings of P3-million to P6-million per hour of power interruption.
About one-thirds of businesses in the city face power outages while two-thirds are operating during rotational brownouts in the city.
Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) began implementing six-hour rotational brownouts when the utility firm started receiving just 120 megawatts out of the 280 megawatts contracted from different power sources.
Cortez said that in this power crisis, only responsive businessmen would survive. These are businessmen who go for coping mechanisms to respond to the crisis, one of these mechanisms in buying generator sets.
The crisis has also given opportunities to businesses, as people will now go to the malls to cool down. Having generators is big plus for businesses as people seek establishments who have regular power.
Some businesses have seen increase in sales as people now eat in malls rather than suffering from the sweltering heat in their homes.
Sales of generator sets are in the uptrend with long hours of rotational brown-outs, last Wednesday (May 7) DLPC announced the increase of six hour rotational brownouts to 7.5 hours.
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However based on latest data according to DLPC in May 8, one of their sources of power the STEAG State Power Plant in MisamisOriental started to put online 105 megawatts to the Mindanao Grid, this enabled DLPC to avoid implementation of rotational brownouts during off-peak hours. (PIA/RG Alama)
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