Eight engines at the BWSC Delimara plant have clocked up almost two months of inactivity this year because of faults, Times of Malta has learnt.

In 10 months a number of generating units had to be shut down for a total of at least 1,419 hours, equivalent to nearly 60 days.

The plant, commissioned in 2012, has been dogged by a series of problems, which the Energy Ministry has blamed on the complexity of the engines and the abatement system that cleans exhaust before it is released into the air.

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