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00:00 The Luzon and Visayas grid is now in yellow and red alert status.
00:05 What effect will that have on our consumers?
00:08 Let's talk to Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Mario Maracigan.
00:13 Good morning, sir, and welcome to Balitang Hali.
00:15 Good morning, Ms. Connie, and especially to our viewers.
00:21 Yes, Asec, why are there so many plants forced outage?
00:26 Thank you for the question.
00:30 We have seen that our plants are being forced outage.
00:36 The plants that were forced outage are still included.
00:40 In fact, we are monitoring the three plants that were forced outage in Luzon since 2023.
00:48 That was last year.
00:49 We have a big plant that is being forced outage since January to March.
00:56 There are 11 plants that are currently outage.
01:01 We have a plant in Kuriente that we are rating as being lower in terms of generation than the total capacity of the plant.
01:12 The total capacity is quite big. We have reached 2,500 megawatts that are not available in the grid.
01:19 What I mean to say is, we will not have a brownout or blackout or even what we call rotating blackout.
01:30 What I mean to say is, if the plant is level 10, our remaining reserve is already lacking.
01:37 If there is a plant that is going to outage, we can experience a lack of electricity.
01:47 So for now, it is still sufficient.
01:49 Is it normal that it is getting thinner and thinner?
01:53 I want to know if they have a solution to avoid a yellow or red alert status.
02:04 You're right. All of our plants have their operators.
02:12 If they are not compliant with the thresholds or standards set by our Energy Regulatory Commission,
02:21 there are a number of days every year that they are allowed to have a plant and unplanned outages.
02:29 If this is too much for them, there will be a deliberation by the ERC and this can result in a penalty on the side of our proponents of power generation.
02:44 All right sir. Thank you very much for your time, Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Mario Maracigan.
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