00:00 The current in Mindanao is also thinning, so the yellow alert went up earlier before it went down to 3 in the afternoon.
00:09 The red alert in Luzon and Visayas also went up, so the Energy Department is monitoring the hospitals.
00:17 This was reported by Mac Pulido.
00:19 As the weather gets hotter and the demand increases, the entire country is already affected by the brownout.
00:28 In the first instance of this heat, the current in Mindanao is also thinning.
00:34 There are still red and yellow alerts in Luzon and Visayas.
00:38 The peak demand in 2023 was higher than yesterday.
00:42 The peak demand in 2023 was 12,550 megawatts, yesterday 13,864 megawatts.
00:50 The demand was higher yesterday, and the NGCP's transmission line tripped, so four plants went offline.
00:58 Suddenly, the supply in Luzon was lacking.
01:00 Our consumption increased. We reached the highest peak for the year.
01:08 In fact, the highest peak for the year recorded last week was even higher than the day before.
01:15 Because of that, yellow alerts are still possible for the next few days.
01:18 Aside from the extreme heat effect on the power system, there are still plants that are offline amid the rising demand.
01:25 It is also unlikely that the excess current from Mindanao will be able to cross because the demand there is high.
01:31 We can see that we can cross this. Again, the yellow alert doesn't mean that we have a brownout.
01:40 But the current may increase.
01:42 Expensive power plants are using diesel or bunker fuel.
01:48 Generation Charge will also be affected if the Interruptible Load Program is implemented
01:52 so that the big customers like shopping malls will not be affected by the current.
01:56 The impact of no electricity is more expensive because even our production capacities are affected.
02:04 The Department of Energy is monitoring vital installations like hospitals,
02:09 like the East Avenue Medical Center in Quezon City, one of the largest hospitals in the country,
02:14 where 1,000 patients are confined.
02:17 In the emergency room alone, 300 patients are being treated every day.
02:21 That's why the hospital is urgently preparing its generators.
02:25 We have many critical patients whose health and life depends on machines,
02:34 life-saving machines that are also dependent on electricity.
02:38 For GMA Integrated News, Macky Pulido, for Tutok Tlaloc, 24 hours.
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