THE Mindanao grid would lose some 150 mw for half a month starting this Monday.
Therma South Inc. (TSI) yesterday announced that the 150-mw Unit 1 of its 300-mw Davao baseload power plant would undergo a maintenance outage starting Aug. 22 as part of preventive maintenance activities.
“This maintenance activity is necessary to review Unit 1 and to implement some corrective measures as needed which should be similar in nature to the coverage of work done in the recently planned outage of Unit 2 from June 18 to July 13,” said Sebastian Lacson, TSI president and chief operations officer.
The maintenance activity is scheduled to last until Sept. 7.
Lacson said the firm is confident that after the outage, TSI would be better equipped to reliably meet the needs of its customers.
“As always, we will try our best to keep the duration of this interruption to a minimum,” said Lacson.
Originally scheduled to start Aug. 6, the Unit 1 maintenance schedule was moved to Aug. 22 to better adjust to the grid situation.
TSI is coordinating with its customers–electric cooperatives and distribution utilities in Mindanao–in order to implement measures to mitigate the impact of the maintenance activity.
TSI is a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power (AP).
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