Outages of 4 coal plants trigger new yellow alert over Visayas

MANILA, Philippines – The Visayas grid was again placed under a yellow alert for five hours on Monday due to thin electricity supply. In an advisory, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines said the alert status would be up from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. READ: Visayas in dire need of new baseload power plants, says Garin The unavailability of four major coal-fired power plants continues to keep the Visayas under alert status. As of 8 a.m., the available capacity was 2,581 megawatts (MW), while the peak demand was 2,482 MW. A yellow alert means supply can still meet […]... Keep on reading: Outages of 4 coal plants trigger new yellow alert over Visayas