Mar 3
The Philippine Power Grid: Transmission Topology and the Limits of Capacity Expansion
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — March 3, 2026 Introduction: Why Adding Capacity Often Fails to Improve Reliability A persistent misconception in Philippine power planning is that increasing transmission capacity alone will materially improve grid reliability. In practice, many recent outages and curtailment events have occurred without…