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PLN burns more fuel to generate power
State-owned electricity company PT PLN says it burned 1
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State-owned electricity company PT PLN says it burned 1.84 million kiloliters of fossil fuel in the first quarter of 2014.
The volume increased 3.95 percent from 1.77 million kiloliters during the same period in 2013, PLN oil and gas division head Suryadi Mardjoeki said in Jakarta.
'The increase of fossil fuel consumption was because of increasing electricity sales,' Suryadi said, as quoted by Antara news agency on Wednesday.
Fossil fuel consumption in the first quarter reached 28.75 percent of this year's consumption target of 6.4 million kiloliters, whereas PLN's total consumption in 2013 was as much as 7.4 million kiloliters, Suryadi said.
According to Suryadi, the figure will increase because a number of power plants, namely in Medan, North Sumatra, are still experiencing shortages of gas, which must be replaced by fossil fuel.
In terms of gas consumption, as many as 109.8 trillion British thermal units (TBtu) had been consumed, a 12.8 percent increase from the same period in 2013, which was 97.3 TBtu, Suryadi added.
'The increase of gas consumption in Java was because of the floating storage and regasification unit [FSRU] in West Java,' he said. (put)
