Manila, Aug. 14 -- The red alert status for the Visayas grid and the yellow alert status for the Mindanao grid continued on Friday as several power plants remain unavailable and current capacity is inadequate to meet demand.

Visayas is on red alert from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on yellow alert from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) said in an advisory.

Available capacity is around 2,269 megawatts (MW), while peak demand is projected to reach 2,511 MW.

This is because the generating units of the major coal-fired plant, Units 1 and 2 of Therma Visayas Inc. (TVI), are still on forced outage.

Electricity imports from Mindanao are also low due to the maintenance shutdown of GN...