Manila Standard Today
By Alena Mae S. Flores | Mar. 05, 2014 at 12:01am
The Energy Department is set to issue a directive that will free up around 100 megawatts of generating capacity in Mindanao in the wake of the outage of the 210-MW coal power plant of Steag State Power Inc. in Misamis Oriental.
“We are issuing a circular instructing the operation of all existing generating capacity in Mindanao to be used as ILP [Interruptible Load Program], embedded or IMEM [Interim Mindanao Electricity Market] participant,” Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla told reporters.
Under the ILP, a distribution utility and a participating customer such as malls, factories and other large power users can agree on a “de-loading” from the grid and the use their genset capacity instead.
The IMEM, meanwhile, is the interim market where power generators can offer their capacity to Mindanao electric cooperatives and distribution utilities.
Steag officials said the plant might take weeks to restore.
The Mindanao power plant encountered “technical problems” in the turbine generator shortly after the systemwide blackout in Mindanao last week.
Steag said it could not determine yet the full restoration of the facility pending the completion of a technical assessment and thorough inspection. source
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