Luzon Grid under yellow alert status anew

The Luzon Grid will be placed under yellow alert status anew on Thursday afternoon, due to unplanned unavailable energy as several plants were placed on forced outage.

In an advisory, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) said the yellow alert status will take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, 2022.

A yellow alert status indicates that the grid has thin reserves based on the difference between supply and demand, with total unplanned unavailable energy of 1,592 megawatts.

The NGCP reported 12,186 megawatts of available capacity versus the 11,282 megawatts of operating requirement, bringing the net operating margin to 469 megawatts.

This comes amid the forced outage of the QPPL, SLPGC 1, SLPG 3, SLPG 4, GMEC 1, GMEC 2, and Calaca 2.

The NGCP is a privately-owned corporation in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country's state-owned power grid.—AOL, GMA News