Friday, August 10, 2012

Philippines:

Bacon-Manito rehabilitation faces 60-day delay (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

BacMan Geothermal Production Field (Courtesy EDC) 
Energy Development Corp., the Philippines largest producer of geothermal energy, expects the completion of the rehabilitation of the 130 MWe Bacon-Manito geothermal power plants in Albay and Sorsogon to be delayed by 60 days.

EDC originally expected to complete the rehabilitation by September this year.

The 60-day delay, which will push completion to November 2012, stemmed from the company’s decision to re-blade two stages of the turbine rotor of Units 1 and 2, to address a failure that was identified in June 2012 after an inspection.

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