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Kupang, Lombok to get additional electricity from Turkish barges in December
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The Karadeniz Powership Gokhan Bey power barge is constructed at a shipbuilding site in Istanbul, Turkey. The barge, operated by Turkey-based energy provider Karpowership, is set to begin operating in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, in mid-December. (JP/Safrin La Batu)
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upang in East Nusa Tenggara and Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara will receive additional electricity supplies before Christmas and New Year’s Eve as two power barges from Turkey are set to begin operating in the two regions in mid-December.
Kupang will see an additional power supply from the Karadeniz Powership Dogan Bey, a floating power plant that has the capacity to produce up to 120 megawatts (MW), while Lombok will host the Karadeniz Powership Gokhan Bey, which has a capacity of 60 MW.
Turkey-based private energy provider Karpowership, which operates the two floating power plants, said in a recent statement that the two vessels were officially launched on Sunday by Turkish President Recep Toyyib Erdogan.
“The Dogan Bey power barge, which has a capacity of 120 megawatts, is scheduled to arrive in Kupang in mid-December and is planned to start operation before the celebration of this year’s Christmas Eve,” Karpowership Asia-Pacific regional director Ufuk Berk said in a statement.
The Gokhan Bey barge is expected to arrive at the same time as the Dogan Bey.
The deployment of the two power vessels is part of Karpowership’s agreement with the Indonesian government to provide 540 MW of electricity to several regions in the country for five years, starting last year.
The first Karpowership barge, which is named the Karadeniz Powership Zeynep Sultan and has a 125 MW capacity, arrived in Amurang, North Sulawesi, in December last year. (evi)
