VALENCIA CITY, Bukidnon – The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) placed the Mindanao power grid under yellow alert on Thursday due to thin operating reserves that threatened grid stability. The country’s lone grid operator warned that while current supply can meet baseline usage, any further generation losses could trigger forced power interruptions or rotational brownouts. “Manual load dropping and rotational brownouts are possible should the situation escalate to a Red Alert,” Mae Roselle Lopez-Curiano, NGCP regional corporate communications officer based in Cagayan de Oro City, said in a statement to the Inquirer on Thursday afternoon. READ: Red, yellow alerts […]...Keep on reading: Mindanao power grid under yellow alert due to thin reserves