Power interruptions may persist next week

Residents may experience more power interruptions next week if power supply does not normalize soon, following disruptions caused by Typhoon Aghon and the high heat indices.

- JASPER EMMANUEL ARCALAS

"If the situation does not improve, [we will have] red alerts next weekif the plants affected by the typhoon would not come back online," Department of Energy (DOE) Undersecretary Rowena Guevara said at a virtual press briefing yesterday.

"As long as we do not know when the plants would come back then we will have red alerts next week," Guevara added.

The DOE noted that some nine power plants in the Luzon grid were affected by Aghon, worsening the island region's already strained power supply caused by previous plant outages.