New power plant may save Luzon from more brownouts Consumers in the Luzon grid will be spared from suffering brownouts in the coming weeks if the first 668-megawatt unit 1 of the GNPower Dinginin coal-fired power plant in Bataan can come back on-line by next week, according to the Department of Energy. DOE Director Mario C. Marasigan of the Electric Power Industry Management Bureau (EPIMB) indicated that as far as schedule is concerned, they are committing to have the GNPower Dinginin plant by June 14, so we are expecting them to come in. With the scheduled resumption of the plants testing and commissioning phase this Monday, the GNPower Dinginin facility will be adding up supply to Luzon grid at a time when it will be critically needed as supply thins out while demand climbs due to wider re-opening of economic activities. Senate Committee on Energy Chairman Sherwin T. Gatchalian further noted that Dinginin will be our saving grace hopefully. Lets keep our fringes crossed. If they are true to their words, then we will not experience brownouts. But since the power generating unit is still not on full commercial operation phase, it has been cautioned that its supply of power to the grid would still be on wobbly state in the coming weeks, which is a natural occurrence for all electric generating facilities that are still at pre-commercial operation state.