The Visayas grid will be placed on yellow alert on Thursday afternoon
due to a low power supply, according to the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines . NGCP said the yellow alert will start at 1 p.m. and will remain until 1 p.m.The Visayas grid has an available capacity of 2,662MW, and has a peak demand of 2,465MW. This, as13 power plants are currently on forced outage while 9 are running on derated capacities.Meanwhile, the Luzon grid will continue to be placed under red and yellow alert s on Thursday afternoon until evening.
Power outageDepartment of Energy Assistant Secretary Mario Marasigan explained that the grids being placed on yellow or red alerts doesn’t automatically mean that power outages will occur. “Kapag tayo ay nasa yellow alert, kung meron pang isang planta na malaki na nag-outage, magkakaron ng posibilidad na rotational brownout,” he said in an Unang Balita interview.
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