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NGCP places Luzon power grid under ‘yellow alert’ as several plants on forced outage

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Workers fix a power transmission line near Tagaytay City on January 21, 2020. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/business/03/19/20200127-tagaytay-linemen-jc-0121.jpg"/><figcaption>Workers fix a power transmission line near Tagaytay City on January 21, 2020.<em> Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - The country’s power grid operator has placed the Luzon grid on yellow alert, meaning possible power outages in some areas, as power reserves became thin on Tuesday.</p><p>The National Grid Corp of the Philippines (NGCP) said the yellow alert was in effect from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.</p><p>The NGCP said four power plants, with a combined capacity of 1,274 megawatts, were on forced outage on Tuesday. </p><p>Another plant, meanwhile, was “derated” by 165 megawatts.</p><p>Because of these developments, the Luzon grid had total unplanned unavailable energy of 1,439 megawatts, with a net operating margin of only 236 megawatts.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/01/18/22/ngcp-warns-of-thin-energy-supply-this-summer">NGCP warns of &#x27;thin&#x27; energy supply this summer, including Halalan 2022</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oJ9tRQxihPU?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

The country’s power grid operator has placed the Luzon grid on yellow alert, meaning possible power outages in some areas, as power reserves became thin on Tuesday.