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Batam: State power firm PT PLN’s Batam subsidiary says the port city is facing a power crisis amid plans to export electricity to Singapore and to supply power to neighboring Bintan Island
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atam: State power firm PT PLN’s Batam subsidiary says the port city is facing a power crisis amid plans to export electricity to Singapore and to supply power to neighboring Bintan Island.
PT Pelayanan Listrik Batam (PLN Batam) communication manager Agus Subekti said over the weekend that the company’s Panaran natural gas-fired power plant had been out of service since mid-May due to a damaged generator.
“The damages were unexpected. With two months needed to procure the machines’ spare parts, we are hoping that we will overcome the electricity deficit in early July,” he told The Jakarta Post.
He added that another power plant, the 110-MW Tanjung Kasam coal-fired power plant, was currently still in its trial phase.
Equipped with European-made power machinery, the Panaran power plant, which had been in operation since 2005 before breaking down, provided 154 MW to PLN Batam’s total power capacity of 318 MW.
