A potential Yellow Alert from the absence of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission link from Luzon is being anticipated the Visayas as a worst-case scenario in 2022, the election season, the Department of Energy (DoE) said yesterday.

A Yellow Alert indicates the thinning of power reserves in the grid. It is raised when reserves fall below the capacity of the largest generating unit.

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