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Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN) For power facilities equipped with pulverized coal technology, the regulatory body prescribed ‘unavailable’ or outages that shall be equivalent to 44.7 days – comprising of 27.9 days of planned outages and 16.8 days of forced or unplanned outages; while for coal plants running on circulating fluidized bed technology, allowable outages shall be for aggregate 32.3 days with 15.4 days of planned outages and 16.9 days of unplanned ...

December 18, 2020 | 6:03 pm Font Size Agnes VST Devanadera, chairperson and chief executive officer, Energy Regulatory Commission — BW File Photo THE Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has set new regulations for the allowable planned and unplanned outages of coal, gas, diesel, renewables, oil-fired thermal and combined cycle power plants, it said on Friday. In a statement, the ERC said these “stringent rules” are meant to ensure the reliability, security and affordability of e...