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PLN to work with 30 Japanese investors to build USC plants
State-run electricity firm PT PLN is set to collaborate with 30 investors from Japan to construct power plants equipped with Ultra Supercritical Coal (USC) technology in a bid to help reduce coal consumption
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tate-run electricity firm PT PLN is set to collaborate with 30 investors from Japan to construct power plants equipped with Ultra Supercritical Coal (USC) technology in a bid to help reduce coal consumption.
The Indonesia-Japan Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) will consist of large companies like Shimizu, Mitsubishi, Yokogawa, Mitsui and Kyushu Electric.
Nasri Sebayang, PLN's construction director, said the firm expected to put construction of the USC plants out to tender this year so that construction could begin in 2015, kompas.com reported on Thursday.
The plants are aimed to be built in Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java and Kalimantan and are projected to commence operations in 2019.
In addition, he said USC plants required considerably higher investment than coal-fired power plants.
"A plant with USC technology will cost us US$2 million per megawatt," Nasri said as quoted by kompas.com, adding that coal-fired plants cost $1.5 million per megawatt (MW) of electricity produced.
Even though the technology was expensive, he said it would reduce coal consumption by up to 20 percent.
Separately, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry's director general for electrical power, Jarman, said existing plants with USC technology Indonesia included the 660-MW steam-powered plant (PLTU) in Cirebon, West Java, and the 850-MW PLTU in Paiton, East Java. (nfo)
