MANILA, Philippines — The recent Luzon brownouts affected over 700,000 households in two days and resulted in more than P116 million in economic losses, the head of the Senate energy panel said in a hearing on power supply shortages Thursday.
“Those rotational brownouts affected close to 705,000 customers in two days, this is just only in the Meralco franchise,” Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said.
“We understand that various electric cooperatives also experienced rotational brownouts in their own respective jurisdiction so this does not take into account customers affected within the jurisdiction of the electric cooperatives,” he noted.
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