by Madelaine
B. Miraflor March 7, 2016
As the
power supply situation gets tighter in Mindanao, Steag State Power Inc.’s (SPI)
210-megawatts (MW) is now running at full capacity after the company completes
the preventive maintenance on the facility’s unit 1.
Considered
as Mindanao’s first coal-fired power plant, SPI plant is now currently in full
capacity operations, following the synchronization back to the Mindanao grid of
its Unit 1 over the weekend.
SPI
conducted recently a two-day preventive maintenance for its Unit 1 in
preparation for an anticipated tighter Mindanao power supply during the summer
season. The unit has a net generating capacity of 105 MW.
It went offline on March 5 for a
scheduled preventive maintenance and was synchronized back to the Mindanao grid
at around 10:17 pm on March 6 as planned.
SPI
president and chief executive officer Bodo Goerlich explained the company’s
strategy to conduct initial preventive maintenance activities during the first
quarter of 2016 is to ensure that the power plant is optimally available during
the summer season.
“We are
carrying out the necessary preventive maintenance activities ahead of the
summer season to ensure optimum availability of our capacity especially during
the critical summer months when demand is at its peak while supply is historically
at its low” Goerlich said.
SPI owns and
operates Mindanao’s first coal-fired power plant located at the PHIVIDEC
Industrial Estate in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental.
The power
plant has two identical power generating units with a capacity of 105 MW (net)
each, or a total combined net generating output of 210 MW.
SPI
successfully carried out its first preventive maintenance schedule for the year
last February 6 and 7 involving its power generating Unit 2.
Since start
of its operation in November, 2006, SPI’s power plant has delivered more than
12 billion kWh of power to the Mindanao grid and has sustained a high
availability rating of 90% with a low unplanned outage rate of 2.5%.
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