NEGROS OrientalThirdDistrict Representative Janice Degamo has called for a congressional inquiry into the continued power outages in the Visayas, which she said are “no longer just an inconvenience.”.
It added that the reason for the Yellow Alert was because of major Visayas coal plants still on shutdown, namely Therma Visayas Inc.Unit 1 (169 MW), Therma Visayas Inc.
MANILA, Philippines — The NationalGridCorporation of the Philippines (NGCP) raised a yellow alert for the Visayas grid on June 16, 2026 due to high demand and the unavailability of some major coal power plants.
The NationalGrid Corp. of the Philippines expects electricity supply in the Visayas to remain tight until August, as major power plants continue to be offline ....