The Department of Energy on Monday said there is a possibility of brownouts due to the increasing power demand and the outages of power plants amid the El Niño phenomenon.“How close are we to red alert, brownouts kapag meron tayong red alert? Well, there is a potential but as long as we have our contingency measures, maiiwasan pa rin natin,” DOE Assistant Secretary Mario Marasigan said at a press conference.
But for this year, it’s not only that the peak highest demands happened for the year happened on April 24, this surpassed our projection by almost 100 megawatts,” he said.As of 1 p.m. on Monday, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines “yellow alert”” over the Luzon grid from 2 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 11 p.m.Yellow alert is also raised in Visayas grid from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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