MANILA, Philippines – The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has placed the Luzon grid on red alert on Wednesday (April 10) amid rising heat temperature.
On its twitter account, the NGCP said the red alert status was raised at 11 a.m., and then 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Yellow alert, meanwhile, was raised from 10 a.m., 12 noon to 1 p.m., followed by 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Department of Energy (DOE), in a separate advisory, said the red alert was raised due to projected low power supply reserves, along with the outage of some generators which placed the Luzon grid at below maximum capacity.
The available capacity in Luzon grid is at 10,625 megawatts (MW) with a reserve of 312 MW while the expected peak demand is at 10,313 MW.
The DOE said the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has already notified the participants of the Interruptible Load Program (ILP) to activate their generator sets during the said intervals.
Despite the lower supply reserves, the DOE said it is not expecting any power interruption to occur in the region because of the available supply under the ILP.
“The distribution utilities, specifically Meralco, have already notified the ILP participants to activate their self-generating facilities (SGF) during the mentioned intervals which resulted to the de-loading of 174.3 MW,” the DOE said.
“This, along with the energy efficiency and conservation program exercised by the customers, may prevent the potential power interruption within its franchise area,” it added.
The DOE also continued to appeal to consumers to use energy wisely during this dry season. – Robie de Guzman (with details from Mon Jocson)
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