The country’s power supply may be stable for now but electricity end-users in Luzon may encounter supply woes throughout the year—especially during the summer months—due to thin power reserves, the DOE warned. | jordeenelagare /PDI
The estimates made by the DOE, Guevara said, already factored in the scheduled outage of power plants with a combined capacity of 500 to 600 megawatts .
“Hopefully there won’t be any unscheduled outage because, let’s say, one power plant goes offline, red alert might be raised,” she explained. While resolving issues hounding the supply side management, Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla has emphasized the importance of demand side management, which he described as a “necessary element” in managing the entire power supply.
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