Unit one of Lidio Ramón Pérez thermoelectric plant in Felton, Holguín province, stopped operations at 8:00 a.m. this Friday in order to carry out cleaning work on the regenerative air heaters, Mayarí Citizen’s Portal reported on Facebook.
Engineer Eric Milanés Quinzán, general director of the industry, said the work should be completed in 36 hours.
This unit is expected to be re-synchronized to the system this Saturday night, March 23.
The plant’s own workers and the power plant maintenance company will carry out the cleaning work, which includes the execution of 25 actions to increase the unit’s power to 225 MW.
The burning of fossil fuel, mainly domestic crude oil, generates residues that hinder the proper functioning of the regenerative air heaters.
These heaters recover part of the energy stored in the combustion exhaust gases in the boiler furnace, raising the efficiency of the process.
With information from the Mayari Citizen’s Portal in Facebook
The company Unión Eléctrica forecasts an affectation of 375 MW during peak hours.
Yesterday, the service was affected by capacity deficit from 6:59 am to 11:22 pm. The maximum peak hour effect was 572 MW at 20:20 hours, coinciding with the peak hour.
Yesterday, the service was affected by capacity deficit from 06:59 hours in the morning until 23:22 hours at night.
The maximum peak hour effect was 572 MW at 20:20 hours, coinciding with the peak hour.
The availability of the country’s power system at 07:00 hours is 1900 MW and the demand is 1760 MW. It is estimated that 400 MW will be affected during the average hour. Unit 5 of Mariel, units 1 and 2 of Santa Cruz, unit 5 of Diez de Octubre and unit 2 of Felton are out of service due to breakdown. Unit 8 of Mariel, unit 1 of Felton and unit 6 of Nuevitas are under maintenance. Limitations in thermal generation, 260 MW.
Seventy distributed generation plants and the Santiago de Cuba plant are out of service due to fuel shortage, for a total of 444 MW. For the peak, it is estimated the entry of three engines of Mariel with 51 MW, the entry of unit 1 of Felton with 225 MW, the entry of unit 3 of Energas Jaruco plant with 30 MW, the entry of engines of Distributed Generation that are waiting for maintenance and their use is authorized with 68 MW and the entry of units 1 and 2 of Santa Cruz (121 MW).
With this forecast, an availability of 2395 MW is estimated for the peak hour and a maximum demand of 2700 MW, for a deficit of 305 MW, so that if the expected conditions are maintained, an effect of 375 MW is forecast for this time of day.
With information by Mayarí Citizen’s Portal / Translated by Radio Angulo
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