DAVAO CITY (PNA) – Big business establishments in the Davao region are now providing their own generator sets to help ease the power problem in Mindanao.

SM City Davao, one of the largest mall operators in the region, is now running its own generator set every two hours daily in the afternoon.

The Marco Polo Davao also utilizes its generator set every day to help ease on the power demand of Southern Mindanao amid the power crisis.

San Miguel Corporation, which runs a brewery plant in Darong, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur, is running its own generator set every five hours daily during the peak hours.

Davao City has been experiencing rotational brownouts since the start of February of two to three hours while other areas in Mindanao suffer brownouts for as long as 10 hours.

With this, the standby diesel-fired power plant in Bajada plant of the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) has also been utilized to augment the power shortage.

DLPC communications officer Ross Luga said National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has increased its load curtailment to DLPC as a result of the greatly-reduced generation capacity of Lake Lanao in Lanao del Sur and Pulangi River in Bukidnon hydro power plants.

Luga said the capability of the Agus hydro-electric power plant has been reduced by 80 percent while that of the Pulangi plant by 90 percent. (PNA)