POWER TRANSITION.

Alsons Power, the Alcantara Group’s power business unit, is advancing its renewable energy initiatives with the transformation of its 55-megawatt diesel power plant, Southern Philippines Power Corporation (SPPC), in Alabel, Sarangani into a 98.7-MWac solar power facility.

Signing the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the phase 1 of the 45 MWac SPPC Solar Power Project are (from left) PowerChina Philippines director Li Hongjiang, PowerChina Philippines chief executive Zhao Changjie, PowerChina Asia Pacific president Zhou Jiayi, Alsons Power president and chief executive Antonio Miguel Alcantara, vice president for business development and project execution Jason Soberano and senior vice-president and business manager for generations Jose Luis Angco.