LOPEZ-LED First Gen Corp. (First Gen) stated on Wednesday that Unit 20 of its 1,000- megawatt (MW) Santa Rita combined cycle strength plant in Santa Rita, Batangas is now back in operation.
In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, First Gen said the replacement of the unit’s damaged principal generator transformer with a spare important transformer has been finished.
Unit 20 is one of 4 250-MW devices of the Sta. Rita strength plant, that’s owned by way of First Gas Power Corp., an entirely owned subsidiary of First Gen.
Unit 20 become below scheduled renovation outage from July 23 to August 26 for works, inclusive of protection sports at the transformer. But at some point of the one-month protection, a fault took place within the essential transformer which was right away investigated.