LUZON POWER SITUATION

I. Yellow and Red Alert Notice

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) issued the following Alert Notices “due to major generation inadequacy”. 

Yellow 8:01am - 9:00am

Red Alert. 9:01am - 10:00pm

Yellow Alert. 10:01pm to 11:00pm

These alert statuses are caused by the recent unplanned outage of:

1. San Miguel Consolidated Power Corp. (SCPC) Unit 2 (150MW) at around 4:28 pm.

This plant has been added to the earlier list of unplanned outages released by the DOE:

2.  Sual Unit I of Team Energy and San Miguel (647MW);

3.  Southwest Luzon Power Generation Corp. (SLPGC) Unit 2 of DMCI (150 MW); 

4. Pagbilao Unit 3 of Team Energy and Aboitiz Power (420MW); and 

5.  South Luzon Thermal Energy Corp. (SLTEC) Unit 1 of Ayala (135MW) 

Moreover, additional losses of MW were due to the following:

6. The de-rated capacity of DMCI's Calaca Unit 2 (100 MW); and

7. 827 MW from previously approved outages due to scheduled maintenance.  

LUZON POWER PLANT OUTAGES/DERATED

Unplanned/Forced Outage

Power Plant

Installed Capacity (MW)

Cause

Date & Time Out

Date & Time In

Panasia Energy, Inc. (PEI)

Limay A1

60

Generator Speed measuring disturbance alarm

11-Apr-2019

11-Apr-2019

SMC Consolidated Power Corporation (SMCCPC) Limay U2

150

Boiler tube leak

11-Apr-2019

16-Apr-2019*

TeaM Energy Corporation Sual U1

647

Boiler Circulating Pump piping leak

09-Apr-2019

13-Apr-2019*

Southwest Luzon Power Generation Corporation (SLPGC) U2

150

Vibration in Primary Air Fan

07-Apr-2019

21-Apr-2019

Pagbilao Energy Corporation (PEC) Pagbilao U3

420

Boiler slagging

02-Apr-2019

16-Apr-2019

South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation (SLTEC) U1

135

Boiler tube leak

20-Mar-2019

13-Apr-2019

Total

1,562

 

 

 

                                                 Source: NGCP, concerned power plants

                                                 *preliminary information

                                                 TBD – To be determined

De-rated Power Plants

Power Plant

Installed Capacity (MW)

Declared Capacity (MW)

Derating (MW)

Cause

SEM-Calaca Power Corporation (SCPC) Calaca U2

300

200

100

Half condenser operation

Total

 

 

100

 

                                                  Source: NGCP, concerned power plants

II. ACTIONS TAKEN

The DOE called for an emergency meeting with NGCP last night and will conduct a follow-up meeting today with the ERC, NGCP, IEMOP, and MERALCO to coordinate efforts and address the situation.

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