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Benise Balaoing

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<p>MANILA -- <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">The Luzon and Visayas grids will be on yellow alert on April 25. </span></p><div><span id="isPasted"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"><span style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"><span style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">A yellow alert is issued when the operating margin is insufficient to meet the transmission grid’s contingency requirement.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span id="isPasted">In a statement, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) said the Luzon grid would be on yellow alert from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.</span></div><div><span><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">The NGCP said 4 plants have been on forced outage since 2023, while 3 were out between January and March 2024.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Twelve have been down since April 2024, while another is running on derated capacity, which means 1,424.3 megawatts of power are unavailable to Filipinos.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Meanwhile, the Visayas grid will be on yellow alert from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., and from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">In Visayas, one<span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"> plant has been on forced outage since 2022, while another 2 have been down since 2023.</span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"><span style="color:rgb(5, 5, 5);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Another 2 went down between January and March 2024, and 19 more were out since April 2024. 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Luzon, Visayas grids on yellow alert on Thursday, April 25

Benise Balaoing,

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Published Apr 25, 2024 09:43 AM PHT

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