Alsons doubling power capacity 2016

Manila Bulletin 
By Myrna M. Velasco 
Published: May 23, 2013 
Alsons Consolidated Resources Inc. of the Alcantara group will be a significant player in the Mindanao grid by 2016, with it roughly doubling its capacity by 282 megawatts or an aggregate 463 megawatts that time from 181MW presently.
The immediate capacity addition, according to the company, will be coming from the full ramp-up of its Iligan diesel power plant to 98MWW by September this year.
The longer-term generating capacity shoring up will happen 2015 and 2016 via the 105MW that will be brought in by the commissioning of the Phase 1 of its Sarangani power plant; and the other 105MW that will be produced by its subsidiary San Ramon Power Inc. (SRPI) from a coal plant in Zamboanga.
The current capacity of Alsons include the 26MW from the Iligan diesel-fired plant; 55MW from the Southern Philippines Power Corporation (SPPC) facility in Alabel, Sarangani; and the 100MW capacity of its Western Mindanao Power Corporation in Zamboanga City.
When it reaches the 463MW level of generation portfolio in the next three years, its capacity will already account for one-fourth of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) projected 2016 Mindanao peak demand of 1,829MW.
For the coal plant to be sited in Maasim, Sarangani, the Alcantara firm noted that it already “completed the site clearing phase of construction with site grading, excavation and leveling is currently ongoing in preparation for setting up the plant’s structural framework later this year.”
The San Ramon coal project, on the other, has so far been awarded its environmental compliance certificate (ECC) by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
The proposed facility’s engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was sealed with South Korean firm Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd. last year.
The Alcantara firm added that for the power sales agreement firmed up with Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative Inc. (Zamcelco) is “in the last stages of securing an approval from the Energy Regulatory Commission.”
“The SRPI plant’s contractor is expected to receive a notice to proceed with the engineering and construction process before the end of 2013,” the company said.   source