With several power plants either offline or operating at reduced capacity, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines yesterday placed the Luzon and Visayas grids on red and yellow alert status.
MANILA, Philippines — With several power plants either offline or operating at reduced capacity, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines yesterday placed the Luzon and Visayas grids on red and yellow alert status.
The Visayas grid was on yellow alert from 2 to 4 p.m., 6 to 7 p.m. and extended until 9 p.m. as 12 power plants went on forced outage and five running on a limited capacity. ‘I have also directed all government offices to set the standard in conserving energy and minimizing power consumption,” he added.
“This is partly due to the help of our big-load customers, which collectively de-loaded around 300 megawatts under the interruptible load program ,” Meralco said.The forced outage of power plants in Luzon and the Visayas resulted in power loss of 1,811.3 MW and 414.9 MW, respectively.The NGCP, meanwhile, said it has energized the Cebu-Negros-Panay 230-kiloVolt Backbone Project Stage 3 as part of efforts to improve power transmission services in Cebu, Negros and Panay.
The CNP3 is the last of the three critical projects the NGCP has delivered amid “numerous challenges beyond its control” like difficulties in securing right-of-way, slow progress of expropriation cases, conflicts with several local government units regarding issuance of permits, among others.
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