Sual Power Plant eyes new coal unloader
LINGAYEN—The management of the coal-fired Sual Power Plant is looking at operating with a new coal unloading system.
In a letter to the provincial board dated September 1, 2015, Toshiro Kume, officer-in-charge at the Team Energy Corporation, cited the need to improve the coal unloading system of the station to ensure the uninterrupted operations of the two units of Sual Coal-Fired Thermal Power Project (SCFTPP).
Kume also said a revision to the existing memorandum of agreement (MOA) signed in 1994, related to the construction and operation of SCFTPP in Barangay Pangascasan, Sual, need to be done to allow the company to adopt alternative technologies in its coal unloading system.
The corporation particularly wants to replace the Paragraph 1 Section C of the MOA’s Terms and Conditions stating, “The coal unloading system shall be the continuous dust free unloader type and not grab type” to be worded instead as
“The coal unloading system shall have measures and controls which shall ensure that coal spillages and escape of fugitive dust are monitored, minimized, and contained, in compliance with health, environmental, and safety standards.”
The MOA was among the province of Pangasinan, the municipality of Sual, the barangay of Pangascasan, the National Power Corporation, and the Pangasinan Electric Corporation.
Sual Power Station, built in 1996 and began providing electricity to the Luzon grid in October 1999, is said to be the country’s largest and most cost-effective coal-fired power plant with a generating capacity of 1,218 megawatts. (Johanne Macob/Tita Roces)
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