Mindanao brownouts to persist
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Mindanao may experience rotating two-hour brownouts for another two to three months before the power supply situation finally normalizes.
The Mindanao coal-fired power plant, which is said to have the largest capacity among similar facilities in Mindanao, is still offline since the island was hit by a massive blackout on Feb. 27. Authorities have yet to pinpoint
the cause of the disruption.
“The indicative duration for the restoration of the units is estimated from 8 to 12 weeks based on the initial findings of the ongoing technical evaluation,” STEAG State Power Inc. (SPI), which is operating the coal power plant, said in an advisory on Wednesday.
Units 1 and 2 of the coal power plant went offline after its turbine-generators sustained damage at the height of the Mindanao-wide grid systems disturbance. The facility, with each unit having a net generating capacity of 105MW, was working normally before the island-wide outage, initial investigations showed.
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