Luzon’s power supply situation could stay critical today (Tuesday) and the risk of possible rotating brownouts remain unless power plants that went on unplanned outage go back online and demand is tempered by lower temperatures, the National Grid--
that went on unplanned outage go back online and demand is tempered by lower temperatures, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines said Monday.
Customers of Manila Electric Co. suffered two-hour rotating brownouts on Monday after five power plants went offline and a 230 kilovolt transmission line tripped. Meralco declined to give a supply situation forecast for Tuesday. Power supply was restored at 3:45 p.m. Monday with the help of Meralco’s large power users who deloaded from the grid and used their gensets to free up the needed capacity.“We immediately activated the Interruptible Load Program to help manage the situation, and requested our big-load customers to remain on standby until the situation normalizes,” Meralco said.
NGCP has also placed the Luzon grid on yellow alert from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. amid the forecasted continuing thin power supply.A red alert status is issued when power supply is insufficient to meet consumer demand and the transmission grid’s regulating requirement.
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