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Bacman I Shuts Down for Maintenance (BusinessWorld Online Edition)

Bacon-Manito Geothermal Power Plant (Courtesy EDC)

Energy Development Corp. (EDC) is scheduled to shut down today the first 55-MWe unit of its Bacon-Manito (Bacman) geothermal power plant in Bicol for inspection and maintenance, the Lopez-led firm said in a disclosure yesterday.

The firm said “Bacman Unit 1 will be on planned shutdown starting… September 12… for about 12 days for an inspection of the steam and turbine and other opportunity works.”

“The inspection to be conducted is further to disclosures made last April 8... at the time of the Bacman Unit 1’s recommissioning. Based on the findings of such inspection, EDC management will decide whether or not further restrictions to the future operation of Unit 1 are necessary.”

The Bacman power facility - which straddles Bacon, Sorsogon and Manito, Albay - consists of two 55 MWe plants and a third 20 MWe unit.

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