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Sarangani plant’s steam turbine generator successfully tested
The Alsons Power Group’s Sarangani Energy Corp. (SEC) recently completed a series of comprehensive tests for the steam turbine generator of its 210-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Maasim, Sarangani.
The tests were witnessed by Alsons Consolidated Resources Inc. (ACR) and SEC chairman and president Tomas Alcantara at the Fuji Electric Co. Ltd. factory in Kawasaki, Japan where SEC’s steam turbine generator was fabricated and is undergoing finishing touches before being shipped to the plant site in Sarangani.
The trial run of the steam turbine generator involved subjecting the generator to various running tests and dynamic balancing checks for the turbine rotor.
Joining Alcantara at the Fuji Kawasaki site were Alsons Power executive assistant to the CEO Antonio Alcantara, SEC project manager Fernando Corrales, key SEC project engineers, and executives of South Korea’s Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., SEC’s engineering, procurement and construction contractor.
The Sarangani power plant was one of two power facilities mentioned by Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla that are expected to come online by 2015 to help provide a sustainable solution to Mindanao’s severe four-year-old power shortage.
The SEC plant will begin operating in October 2015 with an initial capacity of 105 MW. It will reach its full 210-MW capacity in 2016.
The $570-million SEC plant is the single biggest investment in Sarangani and in the entire Region 12.
Apart from the SEC plant, Alsons Power Group is also developing the 105-MW San Ramon Power Inc. coal-fired power plant in Sitio San Ramon, Talisayan, Zamboanga City.
Other Alsons Power subsidiaries include the Western Mindanao Power Corp.’s 100-MW diesel plant in Zamboanga City, the Southern Philippines Power Corp.’s 55-MW diesel plant in Sarangani, Mapalad Power Corp.’s 98-MW Iligan diesel power plant, and power plant operations and management company Alto Power Management Corp.