(PNA) – The power outages in Mindanao worsened due to the critical water level in the Lake Lanao and Pulangi river, source of the Mindanao grid.
It was also learned that the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) on Monday forced hydroelectric power plants located at various areas in the southern island in Mindanao to reduce their power generation by at least 50 percent of their total capacity due to low water inflow of Lake Lanao and Pulangi River because of the onset of the dry spell.
In a statement on Monday, the NGCP said the generating capacity is anticipated to remain insufficient with the unavailability of Agus 5 (Units 1 & 2), the Mindanao Coal Fired Power Plant (Unit 2) and the Iligan Diesel Power Plant.
It was also gathered that the Western Mindanao Power Corporation's power plant in Zamboanga City also decreased its output from 90 to 80 megawatts as of February 9, this year.
This pushed the NGCP, as system operator, to implement power load shedding throughout Mindanao. It will be enforced for the whole month of February as it projects that power supply will remain below comfortable levels.
Eugene Bicar, head of NGCP Mindanao-Systems Operations (SO), urged the execution of some measures to address the situation in the short term, like the completion of the Agus 5 Hydroelectric Plant (HEP) preventive maintenance and trash rack repair; resumption of the operation of Iligan Diesel Power Plant (IDPP) to be expedited by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) and the National Power Corporation and the contracting of additional power generation if there's one available from embedded generations.
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