Visayas grid on yellow alert anew – NGCP

MANILA, Philippines – The Visayas grid is on yellow alert status anew, from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, due to the unavailability of three generating units of large coal-fired power plants amid high demand for power. In an advisory, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) said the grid’s available capacity during the day is at 2,691 megawatts while peak demand is projected at 2,594 MW. READ: Why are ‘rotational brownouts’ necessary to prevent a Visayas blackout? The yellow alert, which is declared when available capacity is inadequate to meet the grid’s contingency requirement, was party traced to […]... Keep on reading: Visayas grid on yellow alert anew – NGCP

Original source: Philippine Daily Inquirer