Therma South Inc. (TSI), a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power Corp., on Monday said it would shut down Unit 1 of its 300-megawatt (MW) coal plant for 17 days.
The shutdown is necessary in order to undergo maintenance activities, which started on August 22. “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 R. Lacson, TSI president.
The maintenance activity is estimated to last until September 7.
Originally scheduled to start on August 6, the Unit 1 maintenance schedule was moved to August 22 to better adjust to the grid situation.
“We are confident that after this outage, TSI should be better equipped to reliably meet the needs of our customers. As always, we will try our best to keep the duration of this interruption to a minimum,” Lacson added.
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.