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EDC Extends Maintenance Shutdown of BacMan Geothermal Plant (InterAksyon)

Energy Development Corp (EDC) said it will extend the maintenance shutdown of the Bacon-Manito geothermal plant after discovering hairline cracks in its turbine blades.

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, EDC said it found hairline cracks on the turbine blades of BacMan's 55 MWe Unit 1 following scheduled maintenance works on the power plant.

EDC may send Unit 1's steam turbine rotor to the Sulzer Turbo Services facility in Indonesia for repairs similar to what it did to BacMan's Unit 2, which is estimated to return to service in the second quarter of 2014.

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