Subsidiary Therma South Inc., which is building a 300-MW, 24/7 base load coal power plant in southern Davao City, has deployed close to one thousand workers on its construction site, expecting to increase the manpower requirements in the next few months. “Thanks to the support of our host barangays and local government units as well as various government agencies, we are on our way in meeting our committed completion target in 2015,� Therma South president and COO Benjamin A. Cariaso, Jr., said. He said Therma South was optimistic of a long term solution to ongoing power crisis with a reliable base 12
load power to Mindanao power users thru electric cooperatives that would sign up with AboitizPower. A n o t h e r s u b s i d i a r y, Hedcor Inc., is moving fullswing on the construction of its Tudaya 1 and 2 run-of-river hydro power plants, with more than 300 workers in the two sites in barangays Astorga and Sibulan, both in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. The two facilities scheduled for completion in 2014 would provide a combined 13-megawatt of reliable and renewable power. Therma South is using the latest circulating fluidized-bed combustion technology to ensure the clean coal power plant will meet stringent government health and environment standards. Hedcor, on the other hand, has 30 years of leadership and expertise on the run-of-river hydro power technology. It currently supplies 155MW of renewable hydro power to Luzon and Mindanao. (PNA) Tuesday, March 5, 2013