ERC fines 10 firms for having too many power outages in 2021

MANILA, Philippines — The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has imposed a penalty totaling P15.5 million on ten generation firms for breaching the maximum yearly outage restrict closing year.

The associated price made the announcement on its web online page closing week.

“Now we absorb been on the hunt for for gencos who are exceeding allowed unplanned outage days,” ERC Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer Agnes VST Devanadera said. 

“We’re in any admire times monitoring and reviewing the weekly reviews being submitted by the gencos in compliance with our directive touching on the reliability efficiency indices and equivalent outage days per year of generating items,” she added. 

Devanadera said this is knowing of as one of many mechanisms that ensures that gencos attain not “unnecessarily” traipse on unplanned outages, especially right during the summer season season which in overall sees a surge in energy rely on and increased use of energy reserves.

ERC knowledge bought by Philstar.com showed that the vitality regulator penalized ten gencos which owned 19 energy generating items which absorb exceeded the outage restrict in 2021. These ten firms are:

• Southwest Luzon Energy Generation Corp. 
• TeaM Sual Corp.
• SN Aboitiz Energy-Benguet, Inc. 
• CBK Energy Company Ltd.
• SPC Island energy Corp.
• Energy Trend Corp.
• Energy Sector Assets and Liabilities Corp. or the Malaya energy plant’s operator: Soosan ENS Co., Ltd Philippines
• SEM Calaca Energy Corp.
• SPC Energy Corp.
• Panay Energy Corp.

Majority or 10 of the generating items are diesel plants; four absorb been coal-fired energy plants, whereas two are hydroelectric items. Meanwhile, ERC identified that three of the generating items which went offline for a protracted length of time closing year, absorb been circulating fluidized mattress, geothermal and oil-fired thermal items. 

Based totally on ERC’s resolution issued in 2020, the outage restrict for an oil-fired energy plant is 27.80 days per year. Meanwhile, the allowed outage cap for a pulverized coal-fired energy plant is 16.8 days per year.

This year, it is your entire more pressing to form certain that uninterrupted energy present all the diagram during the nation especially right during the dry season, which comprises the serious election length in Might perhaps perhaps.