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Palm oil waste-fueled generators produce electricity in Kutai

“Because of the big volume, the gas produced is capable of moving a turbine to generate electricity."

N. Adri (The Jakarta Post)
Balikpapan
Fri, November 16, 2018

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Palm oil waste-fueled generators produce electricity in Kutai Over 73,000 people in three districts in Kutai Kartanegara regency, East Kalimantan, have access to electricity generated from liquid palm oil waste or palm oil mill effluent (POME), an official at a local company said. (Shutterstock/File)

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ver 73,000 people in three districts in Kutai Kartanegara regency, East Kalimantan, have access to electricity generated from liquid palm oil waste or palm oil mill effluent (POME), an official at a local company said.

“Diesel generators, therefore, are no longer used there,” the biogas manager of PT REA Kaltim Plantation, Takbir, said in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, on Thursday.

He added that the company had previously funded diesel generators that provided 12 hours of electricity per day for employees and local residents.

In 2015, Takbir said, PT REA Kaltim signed an electricity trade agreement with state-owned electricity company PLN to distribute electricity to local consumers, selling 3 megawatts of electricity from its surplus.

He added that the company currently produced 7 MW of electricity, 4 MW of which came from the Cakra generator while the rest came from the Perdana generator.

PT REA Kaltim has a concession of over 120,000 hectares of oil palm plantation in Kembang Janggut and produces 2,800 tons of fresh palm oil per day, as well as 80 tons of liquid waste per hour. The waste is kept in a container and compressed for its gas.

“Because of the big volume, the gas produced is capable of moving a turbine to generate electricity,” Takbir said, adding that the company had set aside Rp 50 billion (US$3.4 million) to develop the POME-fueled electricity generators. (swd)

 

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