00:00 The Meralco was able to perform a rotational brownout in the middle of the red alert in Luzon earlier, but the service is back to normal during this time.
00:08 The Visayas received a yellow alert because of the thin reserve of customers.
00:13 Mark Salazar was able to get a hit.
00:15 The heat index that exceeded 40 degrees Celsius should not have accompanied the brownout, according to my interlocutors.
00:25 I was just sitting and sweating. When the brownout happened, it was already very hot.
00:32 How can you live if it's that hot?
00:35 It is a lock, that's the hard part.
00:39 However, due to the high consumption of electricity during this heat and other reasons,
00:43 31 power plants in Luzon and Visayas went out of service, so the supply shrank.
00:50 When the unscheduled power plants went out of service, the number of those on schedule was higher.
00:57 There were more than 2,100 megawatts of power plants that were not scheduled versus the 700 megawatts that were scheduled.
01:08 So the power transmission system was greatly reduced.
01:13 That's why the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, or NGCP, declared a red alert in Luzon and a yellow alert in Visayas.
01:23 The red alert means that we can expect to have a rotational power interruption anywhere in Luzon and Visayas.
01:32 The supply is low compared to the demand of electricity in Luzon from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
01:39 It was extended to 11 p.m. later.
01:43 The reserve of electricity in Visayas is yellow alert or low from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
01:50 According to NGCP, they implemented manual load dropping last 4 p.m.
01:56 or temporary supply cuts in some parts of Benguet, Ambagyo, Ilocos Sur, Nueva Ecija and Aurora.
02:05 We are called demand side management. That's why the use of electricity is high, like for the power plant.
02:13 We can do it either on the weekend when we clean our refrigerators and our boilers.
02:20 We can replace energy-saving bulbs.
02:24 Ms. Loretta has been saving on electricity for a long time.
02:28 Not because the supply is low, but because the bill is high.
02:31 We sleep here on the ground floor.
02:36 At night, we sleep on the air-conditioned room.
02:39 Residents of Tagumpay Street in Tondo, Manila have been outside all day long because they don't have cooling appliances.
02:49 We don't have money to buy air-conditioning. It's hot. Let's just use a pipe to cool down the heat.
02:55 For GMA Integrated News, Mark Salazar.
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03:03 For GMA Integrated News, Mark Salazar.
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