Visayas grid on yellow alert status Wednesday
MANILA, Philippines – The continued unavailability of generating units of several major coal-fired power plants placed anew the Visayas grid under yellow alert status on Wednesday, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, in an advisory, said the grid’s available capacity is around 2,552 megawatts (MW) while peak demand is projected to reach 2,392MW.
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This was traced to high demand amid the insufficient capacity because of forced outage of units 1 and 2 of the Therma Visayas Inc., unit 3 of the Panay Energy Development Corporation, and unit 2 of KEPCO-SPC Power Corporation.
NGCP said a total of 10 plants are on forced outage this month alone, nine since May, one since March, three since 2025, two since 2024, two since 2023, and one since 2021.
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Nine other plants are running on derated capacities, resulting in a total loss of 985.5MW to the grid. (PNA)
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