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The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines placed the Luzon grid on red and yellow alerts for several hours on Monday as around 4,497.3 megawatts of capacity are unavailable to the grid due to the typhoon “Aghon.”
“If necessary, we are ready to implement manual load dropping or rotational power interruptions as part of our responsibility to manage the system,” Meralco spokesperson and corporate communications head Joe Zaldarriaga said. NGCP placed the Luzon grid on red alert from 4 PM to 10 PM and yellow alert from 1 PM to 4 PM and 10 PM to 11 PM as available capacity was placed at 12,326 MW compared to the peak demand of 11,455MW.
It said several factors contributed to the raising of red and yellow alert, particularly the forced outage of power plants due to typhoon ‘Aghon’ namely the Ilijan natural gas plant , Pagbilao coal plant 1 , Pagbilao 2 , and Pagbilao 3 , San Buenaventura Power Ltd. coal plant .
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