MANILA, Philippines – The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has again placed the Luzon grid on red alert status on Thursday due to generation deficiency.
In an advisory, NGCP said the Luzon grid will be on red alert from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
In a separate advisory posted on its official Facebook page, the Department of Energy (DOE) said the red alert status was raised around 6:22 p.m. on Thursday.
“The NGCP reported that SCPC Limay Unit 2 went on forced outage at 1632H due to suspected boiler tube leak,” DOE said.
A red alert means there is an existing generation deficiency or zero ancillary services.
DOE added that procedures are now being done to cool down the boiler for inspection.
The plant outage may possibly last for five days.
“Currently, the power plant’s personnel are conducting a cool down of the boiler for its inspection and possible repair, which is estimated to be out for 5 days,” it said.
A formal report on the incident is expected to be filed at the DOE.
The available capacity in Luzon grid is at 9,732 megawatts (MW) while the peak demand is at 9,689 MW.
NGCP said it may implement manual load dropping (MLD) to maintain the integrity of the power system. Its schedule may be cancelled if system condition improves, such as if actual demand falls below projections.
Earlier, the NGCP also placed the Luzon grid under red alert status from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., as well as on Wednesday (April 10) due to low power supply reserves, resulting from the outage of some several power plants. – Robie de Guzman
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