DOE eyes longer power plant maintenance work to avoid unscheduled shutdowns

THE Department of Energy is proposing a longer maintenance work schedule for power plants to minimize unforeseen power plant outages and any negative impact on the plant’s output.

Under the current ERC interim rules, pulverized coal plants are allowed for a combined forced and unforced unavailable days of 44.7 a year; circulating fluidized bed coal for 32.3 days; combined cycle gas plants at 20.2 days; gas turbine at 29.2 days; diesel at 19 days; geothermal at 19.7 days; hydro at 29.9; oil-fired thermal at 58.6 days and biomass plants at 39.7 days.

The DOE earlier said that more yellow, and possibly red, alerts are expected in the coming weeks as the country has already exceeded its forecasted demand given the prevailing heat levels amid the El Niño phenomenon. The scorching heat, aggravated by El Niño, has affected the performance of the power plants. In fact, the actual demand of 9,301 megawatts for this year has already surpassed the forecast of 9,226MW for 2025.

“In fact, one of the recommendations that we made for the Epira amendment is to allow ERC the authority to order the application of penalties for return, either in the form of refund or discounts, to the consumers that suffer the inconvenience or the violation that resulted in the interruption of service,” Dimalanta said.

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