Visayas grid under yellow alert for 3 hours Friday

MANILA, Philippines – The continued unavailability of several power plants has resulted in a yellow alert status in the Visayas grid from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday.

The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines, (NGCP), in an advisory, said the grid’s available capacity is about 2,548 megawatts (MW) while expected demand is projected to reach 2,334 MW.

READ: Red alert lifted in Visayas

This is because Units 1 and 2 of the Therma Visayas Inc. (TVI) remain unavailable, along with the Palm Concepcion Power Corp.

The NGCP said 11 power plants are on forced outage this month alone, while four other plants have been unavailable since June, seven since May, one since March, three since 2025, three since 2024, two since 2023, and one since 2021.

READ: Visayas grid back on yellow alert

It said 15 others are operating on derated capacity, resulting in a total loss of 971.7 MW to the grid. (PNA)

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