Visayas Grid Faces Red Alert Amid Tight Energy Supply
The Visayas power grid in the Philippines has been placed under a red alert anew due to persistently tight energy supply, stemming from outages at some coal plants and limited imports from Mindanao. This raises the possibility of brownouts on Thursday.
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