Establishments that signed to join the government’s Interruptible Load Program (ILP) helped address power shortage in areas being serviced by the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) Friday.

In a statement, the country’s largest distribution utility (DU) said about 375 megawatts (MW) was lost in the Luzon grid’s power supply because of the outage in Pagbilao 1, which in turn translated to a 270MW loss in Meralco’s supply.

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