{"id":54504,"date":"2015-07-06T21:48:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T13:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54504"},"modified":"2015-07-06T21:48:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T13:48:50","slug":"forced-outages-may-cause-power-hikes-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/06\/forced-outages-may-cause-power-hikes-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced outages may cause power hikes in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34133\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34133\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Following the frequent forced power outages made by power plants, electricity rate may go up in July, according to the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco).<\/p>\n<p>Meralco spokesperson Joel Zaldarriaga said unlike on summer months, the Luzon grid was on yellow alert several times in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe grid (in June) was often on yellow alert because of low supply,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This may trigger a possible increase in electricity rates, though Zaldarriaga added that it is still too early to disclose the amount of increase.<\/p>\n<p>On a yellow alert, the power reserves has fallen below the minimum level.<\/p>\n<p>The Luzon grid&#8217;s minimum level is at\u00a0647 MW or the size of its biggest power plant, the Sual plant in Pangasinan.<\/p>\n<p>Following several forced outages made by power plants in June, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines has placed the Luzon grid on yellow alert five times last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Following the frequent forced power outages made by power plants, electricity rate may go up in July, according &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}