By Danessa O. Rivera (The Philippine Star) | Updated January 1, 2016 -
12:00am
AboitizPower said the TSI plant will
be inaugurated next week, Jan. 8. STAR/File photo
MANILA, Philippines - Therma South
Inc. (TSI), a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power Corp., is now delivering the full
capacity of its 300-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Davao City,
providing the Mindanao grid its much-needed baseload capacity.
AboitizPower said the TSI plant will
be inaugurated next week, Jan. 8.
TSI’s two 150-MW circulating
fluidized-bed (CFB) coal-fired power plant is located at the boundary of Brgy.
Binugao, Toril District, Davao City and Brgy. Inawayan, Sta. Cruz, Davao del
Sur.
The first 150-MW unit of the Davao
plant started commercial operations last September, originally scheduled in
June. The delay was caused by the series of rotational brownouts in the
Mindanao grid following the outage of the 210-MW coal-fired power plant of Steag
State Power Inc. and Mt. Apo geothermal plants.
Currently, the Unit 2 of the Davao
plant is in commissioning phase, AboitizPower president and COO Antonio Moraza
said in a text message to The STAR.
“We are on commissioning now and
already delivering near capacity of 270 MW net. We hope to declare commercial
by third week of January,“ he said.
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