By:
Riza T.
Olchondra 12:13 AM April 13th, 2016
The Luzon grid is back to normal
with adequate regulating and contingency reserves, the Department of Energy
said on Tuesday.
After tripping out Tuesday
afternoon, causing a 15-minute outage in parts of Metro Manila, the
1,200-megawatt Sual coal-fired power plant was back online by 7:24 last night
and the yellow alert was lifted by 10:01 p.m. As such, the grid was seen to be
in a “normal state,” the DOE said.
The DOE said it had received the
latest report from National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), the system
operator, that the power supply status was already back to “normal” as Sual
Unit 2 accounting for about 647 MW was already back online at 7:24 p.m.
The Tiwi Geothermal Plant Unit 6
with a dependable capacity of 43 MW was also back in operation as of early
Tuesday.
The government-owned Malaya power
plant is now running, providing 330 MW of power augmenting the supply in Luzon.
Moreover, the DOE, in coordination
with Meralco, has prepared the 826 MW enrolled capacities under the
Interruptible Load Program, under which big-load customers may opt to run their
generating facilities for their own use, to help augment the supply.
The DOE continues to monitor the
developments of the 300-MW Calaca Unit 2 and the 119-MW TMO Units 5 and 6 that
were on forced outage, while also ensuring that plants that were on planned
maintenance shutdown would be on schedule to come on stream before the critical
election period.
Magat Units 3 & 4 are expected
to back on line later tonight.
The DOE called on the cooperation of
the public to undertake energy efficiency and conservation initiatives despite
normalization of power supply following the prolonged forced outages of some
plants coinciding with other plants’ maintenance shutdown.
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