The Department of Energy (DOE) on Friday said the Malampaya natural gas facility will undergo a maintenance shutdown in February next year, but assured that contingency measures would be in place to ensure uninterrupted power supply during the period.
“The Malampaya Deep Water Gas-to-Power Project will have a scheduled maintenance work from February 4 to 18, 2023,” Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla said at a virtual press briefing.
“During this period, the supply of gas will temporarily stop, and will lead the power plants to switch to alternate sources of fuel,” he said. National Grid Corporation of the Philippines to accelerate completion of transmission lines in the Luzon grid and implement a day-ahead announcement of red and yellow alertsPursue an accelerated campaign for energy efficiency and conservation for industrial, commercial, governmental, and residential consumers
"That's non movable. I wanted to add that in talking with officials of the previous administration, they are concerned as well with the Malampaya maintenance," Guevarra said. "We pray and hope that the international prices of liquid oil fuels will go down further in the next year or during the February and summer months so that it can tide over the country or Luzon grid in particular over these summer months," he said.Gueverra added that “for February, we don’t see the possibility of a yellow alert so we are confident on the February maintenance shutdown of Malampaya.”“But we are more worried this summer, starting April to July.
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