Prime Infra gas plants tapped as Luzon goes on red alert

MANILA, Philippines — Natural gas plants operated by PrimeCoreGen were dispatched at high capacity on Wednesday after widespread power plant outages prompted the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to raise the country’s first red alert status for 2026, according to the Department of Energy (DOE). The DOE said nearly 4,000 megawatts (MW) of