(Eagle News)—The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines has hoisted a yellow alert on the Luzon grid anew, after lifting the same hours before.
The NGCP said in a Facebook post the alert was in place on Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The cause for the re-hoisting of the alert, which means reserves are less than the capacity of the biggest plant online, or 647 megawatts for Luzon, will be explained by the Department of Energy, the NGCP said.
On Friday night, as of 11:40 p.m., the yellow alert hoisted over the Luzon grid had been lifted due to “sufficient generating capacity.”
Several parts of Metro Manila have been experiencing rotating brownouts in recent days, prompting several senators to call for a probe into the same.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the Senate committee on energy, said the probe would focus on the reasons behind the brownouts despite DOE assurance there was enough power, and the reasons behind the supposedly unplanned outages of some power plants, among others.
