AES Dominicana Begins Maintenance Outage at Los Mina Power Plant in Santo Domingo

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources Latin America (Cordoba, Argentina)--AES Dominicana (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) will begin a scheduled maintenance outage on October 26 at Los Mina power plant, in the community of Santo Domingo in Distrito Nacional.

The power plant is equipped with two 118-megawatt (MW), Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) SGT6-3000E W501D5 heavy frame combustion turbines with Siemens generators.

A major overhaul is scheduled to be performed on the Los Mina Unit VI combustion turbine. The inspections should take 30 days, during which maintenance, repairs and inspection will be performed on the turbine's equipment, along with generator tests and cleaning.

An annual routine combustion inspection also is scheduled to be performed on Los Mina Unit V combustion turbine in January 2014. This inspection should take 10 days.

AES Dominicana, a subsidiary of AES Corporation (NYSE:AES) (Arlington, Virginia), owns and operates the 319-MW Complejo Energetico AES Andres and 260-MW Itabo power stations. AES Dominicana has a total installed capacity of more than 800 MW. It also owns and operates the Andres LNG Terminal, located in Distrito Nacional.

AES Dominicana is working on a project to convert the Los Mina power plant to a combined-cycle block by installing two heat recovery steam generators and a 117-MW steam turbine generator set, which will increase plant capacity to 353 MW.

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