Danessa Rivera (The Philippine Star)
- March 20, 2018 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — One of four
units of Semirara Mining and Power Corp.’s power plants has started supplying
capacity to the Luzon grid after completing maintenance.
In a disclosure to the Philippine
Stock Exchange yesterday, Semirara said Unit 1 of Sem-Calaca Power Corp. (SCPC)
was synchronized to the Luzon grid last March 17 with an average load capacity
of 250 megawatts (MW).
Unit 1 went on unplanned outage
until March 12 “to give way to boiler slags removal.”
A wholly owned unit of Semirara,
SCPC operates the 2x300-MW coal-fired thermal power plant in Calaca, Batangas.
Unit 2, on the other hand, is
currently on a planned outage to include the thorough assessment/inspection of
the unit prior to the final phase of the rehabilitation (life extension
program) in 2019.
It is expected to start supplying
capacity to the Luzon grid by the end of the month.
For this year, Semirara has budgeted
$90 million, or roughly P4.7 billion, for the life extension program of the
2x300 MW conventional power plants.
The extension program will give
Units 1 and 2 – which have been running for 33 years and 21 years, respectively
– another 20 to 25 years.
SCPC has tapped Japanese energy and
electronics giant Toshiba Corp. to optimize the operations and extend the life
span of the Calaca power units.
Meanwhile, the two 150-MW units of
another subsidiary, Southwest Luzon Power Generation Corp. (SLPGC), are also on
shutdown.
SLPGC’s Unit 1 went on unplanned
outage due to observed abnormal vibration of the equipment, while Unit 2 is
undergoing regular planned maintenance outage and targets the unit to be back
online by the last week of March.
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