Korea East-West Power Achieves Record Low Outage Rate of 0.011% Last Year... Lowest Ever Among Power Generation Companies

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[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] Korea East-West Power announced on the 2nd that it recorded a power plant equipment failure downtime rate of 0.011% last year. This is the highest performance recorded by a power generation company since it separated from Korea Electric Power Corporation in April 2001.

According to East-West Power, operating 37 generators for 365 days last year resulted in only 0.7 days of failure. The failure downtime rate is an indicator representing the ratio of failure downtime to total operating time (one year) of the power plant.

East-West Power stated that it introduced scientific equipment management techniques based on data analysis to derive failure patterns by life cycle and specific periods. By utilizing this, they were able to significantly reduce failures through customized intensive management by season, day of the week, and time of day.

Additionally, they actively promoted comprehensive failure prevention activities, such as operating the e-Brain Center, which adopts Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to detect abnormal signs in advance and provide integrated solutions.

According to East-West Power, recently, Dangjin Thermal Power Plant Unit 8 succeeded in 60,000 hours of continuous failure-free operation. This means the generator has been operated continuously without failure for 7 years and 6 months.

An East-West Power official said, "As a power generation public enterprise producing electricity, stable power supply is one of the most important roles," adding, "We will continuously carry out failure prevention activities and plan to challenge achieving a 'zero' failure downtime rate this year."

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