Tirso G. Santillan Jr.

The Alsons Power Group is Mindanao’s first and most experienced private sector power generator. Alsons Power is the umbrella brand that groups together all the power business affiliates of the Alcantara Group and Alsons Consolidated Resources, Inc. Alsons Power has a portfolio of four power facilities with an aggregate capacity of 468 mega-watts (MW) serving over eight million people in 14 cities and 11 provinces in Mindanao. These power facilities are: the 103 MW Mapalad Power Corporation (MPC)diesel plant in Iligan City; the Southern Philippines Power Corporation’s (SPPC) 55 MW diesel plant in Alabel, Sarangani Province; the Western Mindanao Power Corporation’s (WMPC) 100 MW diesel plant in Zamboanga City; and the 210 MW Sarangani Energy Corporation (SEC) baseload coal-fired power plant in Maasim, Sarangani Province. For the long-term the company is slated to focus on renewables with the company’s first renewable energy facility- the ₱4.5 billion 14.5 MW hydroelectric power plant currently under construction at the Siguil River basin in Sarangani Province. The Siguil Hydro Power plant will be the first of eight hydropower facilities that Alsons Power plans to develop.