The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines announced yesterday, April 16, that the Visayas grid is now at “yellow status.”
The advisory said that the yellow alert were experienced from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. with the available capacity at 2,742MW and peak demand at 2,440MW.
Twelve power plants are on forced outage, while five (5) others are running on derated capacities, for a total of 676.5MW unavailable to the grid, the advisory said.
A yellow alert is issued when the operating margin is insufficient to meet the transmission grid’s contingency requirement, it added.*
