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The Department of Energy expects the Luzon and Visayas power situation to improve this weekend with the expected resumption of operation of major power plants.
Lotilla said higher temperatures have affected the operations of both thermal and hydro power plants, thus affecting available supply.- Advertisement - Lotilla said Department is also coordinating with participants of the interruptible load program and the Manila Electric Co. to ensure that they have adequate fuel supply.
The Luzon and Visayas grids experienced four days of consecutive red and yellow alerts due to insufiicient generating capacity. A red alert status is issued when power supply is insufficient to meet consumer demand and the transmission grid’s regulating requirement. “We have to encourage more power supply to be delivered in the system and we have to review this secondary price cap. At the end of the day, what is more costly to the consumers is the lack of power and not the power rates,” Lotilla said.
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