as of 27 May 2024, 9:00AM
Red Alert
〽️ 4:00PM-10:00PM
Yellow Alert
〽️ 1:00PM-4:00PM
〽️ 10:00PM-11:00PM
Available Capacity – 12,326MW
Peak Demand – 11,455MW
3 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 2023, 4 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2024, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 11 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑦 2024; 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 3 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 2,525.5𝑀𝑊 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑑.
Several factors contributed to the raising of red and yellow alert, particularly:
1. 25 May and 26 May – Forced outage of the following plants due to TY Aghon: Ilijan (600MW), Pagbilao 1 (382MW), 2 (382MW), & 3 (420MW), SBPL (455MW)
2. 26 May – Forced outage of Masinloc 3 (335MW) due to boiler feed water trouble
3. 16 May – Forced outage of QPPL (460MW) due to broken spring support of turbine combine reheat valve
4. Deration of the following plants: Sual 1, Calaca 2, Masinloc 1
The Visayas and Mindanao grids are in normal condition.
A 𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗦 is issued when power supply is insufficient to meet consumer demand and the transmission grid’s regulating requirement.
A 𝗬𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 is issued when the operating margin is insufficient to meet the transmission grid’s contingency requirement.