May 4
The Philippine Power Grid: Reactive Power Management and Voltage Stability
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 5, 2026 Introduction: Voltage Collapse Is a Grid Problem, Not a Generation Problem Public discussion of electricity reliability often focuses on megawatts of generation capacity. In operational practice, however, many stability events occur without generation shortages. Instead, they arise from reactive…