The Department of Energy or DoE on Monday reported the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections or BSKE held on Monday were unhampered in Metro Manila and in other regions by any major power shortages despite tripping and interruption of several power plants.

Based on the report by the Energy Task Force Election, all power generation plants in the country operated normally but the Ilijan Power Plant and South Luzon Power Generation Corp. Unit 1 in Batangas, Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corp. Plant in Guimaras, and Panay Diesel Power Plant in Iloilo Province tripped.

Panay Diesel Power Plant III Echo Unit, Pagbilao Unit III in Quezon, Palinpinon GPP in Negros Oriental also temporarily went an unforeseen outage but they immediately went online.

"Despite some plant outages, there is still sufficient level of supply and reserves in all grids based on National Grid Corporation of the Philippines grid update. All transmission facilities are under normal operations," said the DoE in its report.

"Market Operations covering Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao grids are all under normal operations," it added.

As of Monday, the Luzon grid had 14,315 megawatts or MW of capacity with 8,492 MW of demand — which means the grid had a regulating reserve of 316 MW and 5,507 MW of net reserve.

In the Visayas, the grid had a 2,657 MW of capacity that sufficiently responded to the 1,748 MW of demand. The island had 88 MW of regulating reserve and 821 MW of net reserve.

Over at Mindanao, the grid had 3,464 MW of capacity and 1924 MW of demand. Thus, it had 90 MW of regulating reserve and 1,470 MW of net reserve.