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                    [ArticleID] => 2324256
                    [Title] => Accountability sought in Panay blackout
                    [Summary] => The provincial government of Iloilo is seeking accountability over the region-wide power outage in Western Visayas that crippled the islands of Panay and Guimaras as well as some areas of Negros after the New Year.
                    [DatePublished] => 2024-01-08 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1807714
                    [AuthorName] => Bella Cariaso
                    [SectionName] => Nation
                    [SectionUrl] => nation
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2024/01/07/1_2024-01-07_22-34-25421_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 2266470
                    [Title] => Senate asked: Probe successive power transmission disturbances
                    [Summary] => Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said these power disturbances “caused inconvenience to communities and losses to businesses.”
                    [DatePublished] => 2023-05-15 10:23:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 
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                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2023/05/15/meralco2022-10-0419-25-39_2023-05-15_10-35-22980_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 1925040
                    [Title] => SMC warns of rotating blackouts, water crisis
                    [Summary] => Diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp., the country’s biggest power producer, has warned of regular rotating blackouts in Luzon due to the “regulatory inertia” that has prevented the construction of new power plants.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-06-10 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
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                    [ArticleID] => 1910860
                    [Title] => Blackouts (Part two)
                    [Summary] => The rotating blackouts that hit us recently have raised a lot of questions on the country’s precarious power supply situation.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-04-18 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136412
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
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                    [ArticleID] => 1910002
                    [Title] => Blackouts
                    [Summary] => It’s summer time in Manila, the season of beach holidays and halo-halo; of yellow thong bikinis and that fabled Brazilian wax; and of ice-cold beer and sizzling island flings. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-04-15 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136412
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1804708
                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
                    [SectionName] => Business
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                    [ArticleID] => 1434587
                    [Title] => South Africa's power blackouts generate frustration, humor
                    [Summary] => 

Driving home through dead traffic lights to a half-cooked dinner is the new normal in South Africa, where rolling power blackouts have become a common drudgery. The government warns that forced outages will continue for years.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-17 04:29:12 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479889 [AuthorName] => Lynsey Chutel [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1353629 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Urgent action [Summary] =>

In recent days Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla has been warning about rotating blackouts of two to three hours daily when – not if – the country suffers from another power crisis in the summer of 2015.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/opinion/20140804/StarToon.gif ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1318619 [Title] => Rotating power outages in CDO now 4 hours [Summary] =>

The Cagayan Electric Power and Light Co. Inc. (Cepalco) has started to implement four-hour rotating blackouts within its franchise area as the power crisis in Mindanao continues to worsen.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1337693 [AuthorName] => Gerry Lee Gorit [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1287141 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Looming crisis [Summary] =>

Once again, power distributor Manila Electric Co. has warned of blackouts if the Supreme Court order restraining a hefty power rate increase is not lifted soon.

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Consumers of the Moresco-II electric cooperative in the first district of Misamis Oriental will continue to experience daily rotating blackouts in the coming weeks.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1337693 [AuthorName] => Gerry Lee Gorit [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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