The energy department indicated that it will coordinate with the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) in addressing the ‘red alert’ condition that tormented consumers last weekend; as well as the continuing ‘yellow alert’ state of the biggest power grid.
After the unwarranted blackout incidents in some parts of Metro Manila and neighboring provinces over the weekend, the major power grid of Luzon was still wobbling into “yellow alert” or tight supply condition as of Monday, June 20, as several power plants suffered forced outages.
The power plants that had been reported on unscheduled shutdowns were Unit 1 of the Southwest Luzon Power Generation Corporation at 150MW; SLPGC Units 3 and 4 at 50MW capacity each; Sem-Calaca Power Corporation unit 2 with 300MW; and the two generating units of Mariveles coal plant at a total capacity of 632MW.
On the brownouts that afflicted Luzon grid late afternoon of Saturday due to tripping of transmission lines, the Department of Energy had immediately instructed NGCP “to immediately resolve the transmission line issues, and explain the details of the incident.” Meralco stated that the weekend incident affected at least 1.6 million of its customers with power service interruptions or momentary brownouts – including those in Caloocan, Valenzuela, Malabon, Manila, Makati, Muntinlupa, Las Pinas, Marikina, Taguig and Navotas in Metro Manila; as well as some subscribers in Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna, Batangas and Cavite.
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