Phuket urged to save electricity during power-plant shutdown 

 

The Phuket News

 

Dr Twarath Sutabutr, Director of Energy Police and Planning, is calling for all businesses and residents in Phuket to conserve power use while JDA-A 18 power plant in Songkhla is shut down for routine maintenance.
 

PHUKET: The Energy Ministry is urging Phuket businesses and residents to conserve electricity while the Malaysia-Thailand joint natural gas facility (MTJDA JDA-A 18) power plant in Songkhla is shut down for routine maintenance from today (Aug 20) through August 31.

 

“The JDA-A18 power plant will be shut down for maintenance for 12 days, from August 20-31. During this time the system will lose around 421cu/m of natural gas per day,” Dr Twarath Sutabutr, Director of Energy Police and Planning, announced in a statement issued this week.

 

“We want to confirm that this will not affect the production of electricity in Southern Thailand, even though the power plant has to switch from using natural gas to diesel fuel while the maintenance is carried out,” Dr Twarath said.

 

“PTT Public Company Limited will supply the natural gas, but we also have NGV gas reserve off-site and ready for delivery at the main gas station. We have amassed our maximum storage of fuel oil before proceeding with the shutdown, which should be enough.

 

“We have also contacted the Energy Ministry in Malaysia to buy electricity from them in case of emergency,” he added.

 

Dr Twarath continued, “We have asked every government department, as well as major industrial factories, tourism businesses and residents, to help us save energy during this time and reduce their power usage from 6pm to 9:30pm, which are the main hours that people use electricity the most.

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Would never occur to them to have a ring system so electricity can be taken from other plants around the country.

Weird.

 

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During this time the system will lose around 421cu/m of natural gas per day,”

 

What is that about?

 

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“We want to confirm that this will not affect the production of electricity in Southern Thailand, even though the power plant has to switch from using natural gas to diesel fuel while the maintenance is carried out,” Dr Twarath said.

 

So no change, just carry on as before.

1 hour ago, gandalf12 said:

Would never occur to them to have a ring system so electricity can be taken from other plants around the country.

 

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“We have also contacted the Energy Ministry in Malaysia to buy electricity from them in case of emergency,” he added.

 

Looks like its covered.

So are they usualy using natural gas or diesel?

 

the power plant has to switch from using natural gas to diesel fuel

 

but it says they will be losing natural gas?

43 minutes ago, bearpolar said:

So are they usualy using natural gas or diesel?

 

the power plant has to switch from using natural gas to diesel fuel

 

but it says they will be losing natural gas?

Yes, the OP is not very clear.

2 hours ago, 12DrinkMore said:

 

They wrote

 

 

Looks like its covered.

No it isn't really. Yes they may get it from Malaysia but they will pay a big price for it. It is what is called the spin reserve that they are digging into. It they had a national grid network they would get the power from that, plus there would be less chance of the power outages so many people experience.

11 hours ago, gandalf12 said:

No it isn't really. Yes they may get it from Malaysia but they will pay a big price for it. It is what is called the spin reserve that they are digging into. It they had a national grid network they would get the power from that, plus there would be less chance of the power outages so many people experience.

“We want to confirm that this will not affect the production of electricity in Southern Thailand'- so there is a grid in place, otherwise the electricity would just sit in Songkla.

 

Which bit of this did you fail to understand, they have it covered- Malaysia is a EMERGENCY contingency. Power for Phuket has also come from Surat Thani in the past. 

5 minutes ago, Psimbo said:

“We want to confirm that this will not affect the production of electricity in Southern Thailand'- so there is a grid in place, otherwise the electricity would just sit in Songkla.

 

Which bit of this did you fail to understand, they have it covered- Malaysia is a EMERGENCY contingency. Power for Phuket has also come from Surat Thani in the past. 

You are missing the pointment completely. Yes they can get it from Malaysia but itoes not solve many of the problems that Thailand has regarding electrical supply. I suggest you dig a little deeper into transmission systems before you blindly comment

2 hours ago, gandalf12 said:

You are missing the pointment completely. Yes they can get it from Malaysia but itoes not solve many of the problems that Thailand has regarding electrical supply. I suggest you dig a little deeper into transmission systems before you blindly comment

 

They could solve 95% of the problems I experience if they could plant the poles a bit deeper and use more concrete to stop them falling over when it gets a bit breezy and rainy.

14 hours ago, gandalf12 said:

No it isn't really. Yes they may get it from Malaysia but they will pay a big price for it. It is what is called the spin reserve that they are digging into. It they had a national grid network they would get the power from that, plus there would be less chance of the power outages so many people experience.

What makes you think there is not national grid in Thailand?

 

How does that relate to the southern Thailand power outage few years back?

3 hours ago, oilinki said:

What makes you think there is not national grid in Thailand?

 

How does that relate to the southern Thailand power outage few years back?

If there was one of any value you wouldn't have the power outages that occur