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. READ: EXPLAINER: Color-coded grid alert statuses and what they mean 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 […]...

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