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Only 10 percent of 35-GW power projects in operation, PLN data show
More than three years after the government launched a program to add 35 gigawatts of power generation capacity to national supply, only 3.6 GW have been realized.
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Making the rounds: A worker conducts a routine inspection at the Grati steam-powered electricity plant in Pasuruan, East Java. Most of the power plant projects under the 35-gigawatt development program are still in the construction stage. (Antara/Widodo S. Jusuf)
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ore than three years after the government launched a program to add 35 gigawatts of power generation capacity to national supply, only 3.6 GW have been realized, data from state-owned electricity firm PLN show.
The initial target was to wrap up the entire 35 GW program in 2019, the final year of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s first presidential term. That deadline has since been moved back to 2024 or 2025, because of slower than expected growth in electricity demand.
PLN, which is directly responsible for contributing 10 GW or 28.5 percent to the planned new capacity, said most of the projects were still in the construction phase. These accounted for 20.11 GW or 57 percent of the total 35 GW.
PLN’s acting president director, Djoko Abumanan, said power purchase agreements (PPA) for another 27 percent of the total capacity, or 9.5 GW, had been signed, but construction had yet to begin.
“The projects that are in the procurement phase [make up] 4 percent or 1.4 GW, and those that are still in the planning phase [account for] 2 percent or 732 megawatts,” he said in a hearing at the House of Representatives on Thursday.
PLN’s projects within the 35 GW program that have reached the operational stage account for 2.2 GW, while those of independent power producers (IPPs) account only for 1.3 GW.
However, IPPs has more capacity in the construction phase at 15.7 GW, while PLN has only 4.3 GW.
