THE Luzon Grid was placed on yellow alert status on Friday after a power shortage was experienced in the region as major power plants went on planned and forced outages, according to the Department of Energy (DOE).

The DoE said the lost power capacities caused by plant outages reached 1,364 megawatts (MW) following the planned outages of Pagbilao Unit 2 (382MW); San Lorenzo Unit 1 (250MW); Limay B6 (70MW); and the forced outage of the GNPower Unit 1 (302MW) with the unavailability of both Kalayaan Units 3 and 4 (360MW).

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