The Department of Energy (DOE) expects the Luzon Grid to be positioned below yellow alert standing 15 occasions for the rest of the 12 months, however mentioned a crimson alert remains to be doable if a repeat of the tripping of the transmission line on Monday ought to happen.
In a digital briefing on Tuesday, the DOE mentioned yellow alerts are anticipated in all weeks of May, weeks 22 to 24 in June, weeks 32 to 34 in August, weeks 35 and 38 in September, weeks 39 and 42 in October, and week 47 in November.
The company in January solely projected the Luzon Grid to be be positioned below yellow alert standing — which signifies that the grid has skinny reserves — a dozen occasions this 12 months.
According to Energy Undersecretary Rowena Cristina Guevarra, the most recent projections took into consideration the worst-case state of affairs, and ongoing transmission constraints because of the delays within the connection of the grid to different sources.
“The delays, unfortunate ano, sana ‘yung delay hanggang before summer sana, but then it extended all after summer pa matatapos, that’s why we have this situation,” mentioned Guevarra.
(The delays (are) unlucky. We hoped that the delays would final solely till earlier than summer season, however then it acquired prolonged and can proceed till after summer season, that’s why we now have this example.)
Asked whether or not a crimson alert standing may nonetheless be raised, Guevarra mentioned that is doable if a repeat of Monday’s outages ought to occur.
“May possibility pa rin, pero magkakamukha ng nangyari kahapon. (There is still a possibility, like what happened yesterday.) Remember, this is the first red alert of the year,” she mentioned.
The crimson alert standing, which signifies that there’s zero ancillary service or {that a} era deficiency exists, was raised on Monday, prompting rotational energy interruptions throughout Metro Manila.
This got here as there have been 5 energy crops on pressured outages whereas three others have been operating at derated capacities following the tripping of the Bolo-Masinloc transmission line.
On Tuesday, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, vice chairman of the Senate power committee, mentioned that the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) must be “held accountable” for the ability outages.
The DOE, in the meantime, mentioned it’s nonetheless awaiting the official clarification for the incident, however preliminary info confirmed that heavy rains and lightning hit the transmission line, and triggered the problem. —VAL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
