by Lenie Lectura - August 24, 2016
FIRST Gen Corp. on Wednesday
reported a “fault” that occurred in Unit 20 of one of its gas plants in
Batangas.
“A fault occurred at the main
generator transformer of Unit 20 of the 1,000-megawatt [MW] Santa Rita Combined
Cycle Power Plant,” the Lopez-led firm said in a disclosure.
The plant is operated by First Gas
Power Corp. (FGPC), a subsidiary of First Gen.
Unit 20, one of the four units of
the Santa Rita power plant, is currently under scheduled maintenance
outage which started on July 23. Ongoing works, including maintenance
activities on the said transformer, will be finished on August 26.
“Investigation is ongoing to confirm
the condition of the transformer. If necessary, FGPC can immediately deploy its
spare main generator transformer which is stored at the Santa Rita power-plant
site,” First Gen said.
The other gas plants of First Gen
subsidiaries in Batangas are the 500-MW San Lorenzo of FGP Corp., the new 97-MW
Avion open-cycle natural gas-fired power plant of Prime Meridian Powergen
Corp., and the 414-MW San Gabriel combined cycle natural gas plant of First
NatGas Power Corp.
Avion and San Gabriel are expected
to start commercial operation in the first half and second half of the year,
respectively.
The other day, Lopez-led Energy
Development Corp. (EDC) reported its 77-MW Malitbog Unit 2 geothermal power
plant tripped last week.
The power facility “experienced a
flashover inside the high-voltage terminal box,” which caused the said unit to
trip on August 17.
EDC said at the time of the
incident, Malitbog Unit 2 was offline and in the process of testing and
commissioning its Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) under the supervision of
ABB, the manufacturer of the AVR, as part of a 30-day scheduled maintenance
outage.
“The incident did not have any
impact on the grid as Malitbog Unit 2 was not synchronized to the grid at that
time, and no injuries were sustained by any of the personnel involved,” the
company said.
The Malitbog power plant is part of
the Unified Leyte geothermal power plants.
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