By Alena Mae S. Flores Posted on Nov. 12, 2012 at 12:01am
The second unit of the 210-megawatt coal plant of Steag State Power Inc. in Misamis Oriental resumed operations, after a two-week maintenance shutdown, helping ease the power supply deficit in Mindanao.
“Steag officially declared the 200-MW power availability at 10:02 a.m. Nov. 10. The precarious power supply condition in Mindanao is expected to substantially improve with the full capacity operation of Steag’s power plant beginning [Saturday],” Steag corporate communications officer Jerome Soldevilla said.
Steag is a special purpose company established to build, operate and maintain Mindanao’s first coal-fired power plant. The company is principally owned by Steag GmbH, one of the largest electricity producers in Germany and a market leader in clean coal technology and biomass power plants.
Steag reported that Unit 2 (105 MW) was officially synchronized to the Mindanao grid at 8:58 a.m. Nov. 10, or about 15 hours ahead of schedule, following a 12-day planned preventive maintenance shutdown beginning Oct. 29.
Steag’s Unit 1 also came on line on Nov. 4, or 10 hours ahead of schedule, boosting power supply in Mindanao. Unit 1 underwent a relatively long scheduled preventive maintenance shutdown on Oct. 6 to Nov. 4.
The company said it carried out the preventive maintenance activities for both units 25 hours ahead of schedule.
“Carrying out the necessary preventive maintenance as planned and scheduled will bring long-term benefits for Mindanao power consumers in terms operational reliability,” Soldevilla said.
National Grid Corp. of the Philippines’ power outlook on Sunday showed that the shortage in Mindanao was only at 49 MW from the previous days’ shortage of as much as 200 MW.
Mindanao’s system capacity as of Sunday reached 1,008 MW while system peak demand was at 1,057 MW.
Steag, meanwhile, the Mindanao power plant sustained an availability rate of 93.3 percent and a low unplanned outage rate of less than 1 percent in its first six years of operation,
The company said despite the relatively long maintenance shutdown conducted for Unit 1, it was confident it could still achieve an availability rate of 92 percent by the end of the year. source
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