ERC tightens benchmark for power plant outages
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 outages. Combined cycle plants, on the other, are permitted for total outages of 20.2 days with 12.5...