The First Maxpower International Corporation (FMIC) is a one hundred percent (100%) Filipino – owned company which was established in June 2009 primarily to engage in the business of power generation, most particularly from renewable energy source. Pursuant to its Articles of Incorporation, the company is created to construct, erect, install, and fabricate all kind of works including but not limited to buildings, power plants and facilities, foundations, electrical transmission towers, power substations, roads, bridges construction and operation and maintenance of power plant, electrical substation, transmission lines, plant machinery and equipment and works or projects of the same nature.
Since its incorporation, FMIC has been doing business development studies of electrical power transmission line projects in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
FMIC is relatively new as an institution however the people behind the company are renowned industry players with well-established technical and managerial expertise in the field of civil and electrical construction, particularly, in electrical transmssion lines, electric generating plants (geothermal and diesel), high-voltage substations and protective systems, airport development, among others.
Likewise, they have established linkages with foreign technology service providers that would propel the company to greater heights.
With his extensive exposure to the development of renewable energy through the construction of geothermal power plants in the geothermal reserves of Tiwi, Albay (6x55MW Tiwi Geothermal Power Plant Project) and Bacon-Manito, Sorsogon, (2x55MW Bacon-Manito Geothermal Power Plant Projects & 2x20MW Bacon-Manito II Modular Geothermal Power Plant Project) and its associated transmission lines, Engr. Francis A. Paderna thought of exploring other sources of renewable energy for power generation. The company believes that if other renewable energy sources such as biomass, solar power, hydro power, and wind power (which are vastly available in the country) would be fully developed, the Philippines will attain a higher level of energy self sufficiency and at the same time will earn its mark as the Renewable Energy Capital in Southeast Asia.
Working this vision to become a reality. FMIC has initially conducted consultation meetings with concerned project proponents and stakeholders. The results of the said consultation meetings resulted in the short listing of FMIC’s proposed wind power sites, these are:
- Municipality of Sanchez Mira, Cagayan
- Municipality of Claveria, Cagayan
- Municipality of Pulupandan, Negros Occidental
- Municipality of Bago, Negros Occidental
In view of the above mentioned proposed sites, FMIC is seriously putting its resources for realization of these wind power projects.