By | Dec. 03, 2013 at 12:03am
Alsons Consolidated Resources Inc. said the construction of its 105-megawatt San Ramon coal-fired power plant in Zamboanga City is facing delay in the by six to 12 months amid concerns on the “normalization” of the city following a siege by rebels early this year.
Zamboanga City suffered from an armed conflict on September 9 when members of the Moro National Liberation Front took around a hundred people hostage to push its secession demands. The siege ended on September 28, but the clash displaced some 100,000 people.
“The Zamboanga project is a bit delayed because of banks’ concerns for normalization of city and rehab of Zamcelco distribution. Might be six to one year delay,” Alsons executive vice president Tirso Santillan Jr. said. The company had scheduled project construction late this year.
Alsons chairman and president Tomas Alcantara earlier said the San Ramon plant had signed up Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd. of South Korea as contractor in December last year.
“The... plant is expected to begin construction later in 2013 and is scheduled to commence operating by 2016,” he said earlier.
Alcantara said Alsons was committed to ensure Mindanao’s power stability in the long run and planned to double the current generating capacity of subsidiaries to make it a supplier of one-fourth of Mindanao’s energy demand by 2016.
“With two plants going up in Sarangani and Zamboanga, we are looking forward to generate an aggregate of 463 megawatts--more than one-fourth of the Department of Energy’s projected 2016 Mindanao peak power demand of 1,829 MW,” he said. source
Zamboanga City suffered from an armed conflict on September 9 when members of the Moro National Liberation Front took around a hundred people hostage to push its secession demands. The siege ended on September 28, but the clash displaced some 100,000 people.
“The Zamboanga project is a bit delayed because of banks’ concerns for normalization of city and rehab of Zamcelco distribution. Might be six to one year delay,” Alsons executive vice president Tirso Santillan Jr. said. The company had scheduled project construction late this year.
Alsons chairman and president Tomas Alcantara earlier said the San Ramon plant had signed up Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd. of South Korea as contractor in December last year.
“The... plant is expected to begin construction later in 2013 and is scheduled to commence operating by 2016,” he said earlier.
Alcantara said Alsons was committed to ensure Mindanao’s power stability in the long run and planned to double the current generating capacity of subsidiaries to make it a supplier of one-fourth of Mindanao’s energy demand by 2016.
“With two plants going up in Sarangani and Zamboanga, we are looking forward to generate an aggregate of 463 megawatts--more than one-fourth of the Department of Energy’s projected 2016 Mindanao peak power demand of 1,829 MW,” he said. source
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