Sual power plant
not restored
By Danessa
Rivera
The
Luzon grid was placed on alert anew last week
over high demand even as two power plants that tripped off on Monday
remained offline.
The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines
(NGCP) raised the yellow alert from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. “due to insufficient
contingency reserves brought about by an adjusted higher demand forecast.”
The
grid operator said available capacity was projected at 9,921 megawatts (MW)
while peak demand was expected at 9,115 MW.
Mylene Capongcol, Department of Energy
director, said the Quezon Power Philippines Ltd. (QPPL) and a unit of the Sual
coal-fired power plant had not been restored.
QPPL owns and operates the 460-MW
coal-fired power plant in Mauban, Quezon while the San Miguel Group operates
the 647-MW Sual coal-fired plant in Pangasinan.
Larry Fernandez, Manila Electric Co.
(Meralco) senior vice president and head of utility economics, said the demand
forecast was raised yesterday afternoon.
“Meralco
will be advising Interruptible Load Program participants to prepare and be on
standby in case manual load dropping needs to be implemented,” spokesperson Joe
Zaldarriaga said in a text message.
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