00:00 The red and yellow alert was raised in Luzon and Visayas due to the low supply.
00:07 Following the downfall of the operation, there were almost 20 power plants.
00:12 The Meralco also announced the possibility of one-hour rotational brownout in different places in Luzon.
00:21 At the last minute, the Metro Manila was counted in the list of dangerous heat indexes in the country.
00:29 This is the story of Rod Lagusan.
00:31 For the first time, the Red Alert Status in Luzon was raised after almost a year.
00:41 This was followed by the announcement by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines
00:44 that the Luzon Grid is under the Red Alert from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and from 6 to 9 in the evening.
00:52 The Red Alert Status is issued when the power supply is insufficient
00:56 for the consumer demand and regulating requirement of the transmission grid.
01:01 While the Yellow Alert is issued from 1 to 2 in the afternoon,
01:04 4 in the afternoon, 6 in the evening, and 9 to 11 in the evening.
01:10 If Yellow Alert, it means that the operating margin is insufficient
01:13 for the contingency requirement of the transmission grid.
01:17 In the released statement by the NGCP, the available capacity is 13,537 MW
01:23 compared to the peak demand of 13,024 MW.
01:27 According to the NGCP, only 3 power plants are forced outages.
01:33 At the same time, the Yellow Alert Status was declared in Visayas Grid from 2 to 4 in the afternoon
01:39 and from 6 to 7 in the evening.
01:41 In the DOE, they were the first to inform the NGCP and other generation companies
01:46 about the lack of power supply.
01:49 The DOE particularly targets all power stakeholders to ensure that
01:53 the necessary measures are implemented to reduce the effect of this.
01:57 Here in Luzon, the Ministry of Transport has also ordered all distribution facilities
02:01 including Meralco and electric operatives to implement their Interruptible Load Program
02:07 to reduce the total demand in the grid.
02:09 Meanwhile, Meralco issued a permit that they may implement power interruption in some places
02:15 like here in Metro Manila, Bulacan, and Laguna.
02:19 But even if it's 4 in the afternoon on Tuesday,
02:21 we have not interrupted any area.
02:25 We have not implemented any rotating interruption.
02:29 So we're still hoping for the best despite the red alert status that was announced by the grid operator.
02:37 If this is the case, Meralco will be affected in the next few hours.
02:40 We're looking at possible scenarios once a red alert and a yellow alert has been declared
02:50 and primarily on the demand side management, the implementation if needed,
02:56 of the Interruptible Load Program wherein the big customers of Meralco,
03:03 commercial and industrial establishment, who are part of the program,
03:06 will be deloaded and tapped from the Meralco grid.
03:11 Here, they will use their own generator sets.
03:14 According to Meralco,
03:17 300 megawatts of power will be deloaded from Meralco to their big customers.
03:22 Rod Laguzad for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
03:26 And in the last advisory from NGCP,
03:32 the red alert will remain in Luzon until 11 p.m.
03:37 Until 9 p.m. tonight, the yellow alert will remain in Visayas grid.
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