Philippines' Alsons eyes Thai, Japanese partners for 200MW project

The Philippines' Alsons Consolidated is looking to build 200 MW coal-fired power facilities in southern Mindanao and dealing for possible partnerships.

It was recently in talks with the Electricity Generating Public Company Limited of Thailand and Japan's Toyota Tsusho Corp, according to Reuters.

The Sarangani province in southern Mindanao, the location of the propsed project, may face an acute power shortage in coming years.

The energy-to-property group has also awarded South Korea's Daelim Industrial Co an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a 100 MW power plant in Sarangani.

Alsons said it planned to replace existing diesel plants in Sarangani and Zamboanga provinces, with a combined capacity of 300 MW, with coal-fired power plants using circulating fluidised bed boilers.