
Affected by tight power reserves and the outage of two large coal-fired power plant units, the Philippine Visayas power grid entered a yellow warning state again on the 18th, with available power generation capacity reduced by 655.5 megawatts.
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The Visayas power grid has faced power supply pressure many times due to tight power reserves and outages of generating units.
China News Service, Manila, October 18th. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines stated on the 18th that due to tight power reserves, the Visayas power grid entered a yellow warning state again that day, with the warning period ranging from 17:00 to 20:00.
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines announced that the available power generation capacity of the Visayan power grid is 2,512 megawatts, and the peak power demand is expected to be 2,354 megawatts. The warning is mainly due to the outage of two large coal-fired power plants in the Visayas region. In addition, Line 2 of the Mindanao-Visayas inter-island transmission line was undergoing scheduled maintenance, which put pressure on the power grid’s operating reserve capacity.
As of the 18th, many generating units in the Visayas power grid were out of service due to malfunctions or maintenance, and another 17 units were operating at reduced rates, resulting in a reduction of 655.5 megawatts in available power generation capacity of the power grid.
Yellow warning means that the operating reserve capacity of the power grid is insufficient to meet the reserve requirements required to deal with sudden failures.
In order to alleviate the power supply pressure on the Visayas power grid, the Philippine Department of Energy has previously required the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines to deploy more than 250 megawatts of battery energy storage systems and consider the use of liquid fuel power generation facilities to increase power supply.

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