The Department of Energy is asking residents of Panay to conserve energy while awaiting the completion of the transmission upgrade and maintenance of Palm Concepcion Power Corp.’s coal plant by the end of March.
“By the end of March, the Panay grid will be strengthened with the completion of the CebuNegros-Panay transmission upgrade, and the PCPC’s regular maintenance shutdown will be completed,” said the DOE.
“In the meantime, the Department of Energy reiterates the need for cooperation among generators, distribution utilities, and the system operator in Panay,” it added.
On March 1, at 6:59 PM, the three units of Panay Energy Development Corp. went on shutdown, resulting in a partial blackout of the Panay sub-grid and some parts of Negros.
The DOE said that around 80 MW of Panay’s power demand was initially served by the Negros-Panay submarine cable and later by smaller power plants on the island.
By 9:53 PM, one of the PEDC units returned online, followed by another PEDC unit at 11:22 PM. The third PEDC unit was synchronized back to the grid at 8:55 AM on March 2.
The DOE said that short-term solutions by the system operator, National Grid Corp. of the Philippines, such as using 10% headroom of the large coal plants as contingency reserves, are currently in place.
“Long-term solutions, such as the energization of several renewable and conventional power plants and the completion of transmission projects to support power generation projects and the growth of the load centers, are in the pipeline,” it said.
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