posted March 07, 2016 at 11:05 pm by Alena
Mae S. Flores
Steag State Power Inc. has completed
a preventive maintenance on the 210-megawatt Mindanao coal-fired power plant,
which is now running at full capacity and contributing to the Mindanao grid.
Steag recently conducted a two-day
preventive maintenance for Unit 1 in preparation for an anticipated tighter
Mindanao power supply during the dry season. The unit has a net generating
capacity of 105 MW.
Unit 1 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.
Steag president and chief executive
Bodo Goerlich said the initial preventive maintenance in the first quarter of
2016 aimed to ensure that the power plant was optimally available during the
dry 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.
Steag owns and operates Mindanao’s
first coal-fired power plant at the Phividec Industrial Estate in Villanueva,
Misamis Oriental province. The power plant has two identical power generating
units with a capacity of 105 MW each, or a total combined net generating output
of 210 MW.
Steag is principally owned by a
leading German power producer STEAG GmbH and local partners Aboitiz Power Corp.
and La Filipina Uygongco Corp.
The government has moved plans to
privatize the contract to manage the output of the Mindanao coal plant until
power supply in the region stabilizes in the second half of 2016.
Mindanao’s power reserves stood at
62 MW as of Monday, with system capacity at 1,471 MW against the system
peak of 1,409 MW.
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