ROCKWELL POWER PLANT, MAKATI  1960s

The Rockwell Power Plant was a thermal plant named after the first president of Meralco, James Chapman Rockwell. It sits on a 15.5 hectare land owned by the Lopez family, owner of Meralco. The plant is located in Makati. The property used to be in a quiet area behind an exclusive residential village called Bel-air.

The 130-megawatt thermal plant serves as a source of power generation for the most part of Metro Manila since 1955.

The thermal plant closed in 1995 and in its place comes the Rockwell Center, a bustling residential, office, shopping and entertainment hub. The centerpiece is the Rockwell Power Plant Mall which was completed in the year 2000.