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Indonesia’s largest power plant on schedule to operate next year
The US$4.2 billion power plant is Indonesia’s largest public-private partnership project to date
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Several technicians of state-owned electricity company PLN replace a damaged isolator in Jakarta. (The Jakarta Post/Dhoni Setiawan)
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2,000-megawatt coal-fired power plant tipped as the largest project of its kind in Southeast Asia is on track to kick off commercial operations next year
“Right now, the Batang power plant has been 83 percent completed. It is on track to begin commercial operations in 2020,” said Dharma Djojonegoro, vice president of Adaro Power, a subsidiary of Adaro Energy.
Coal producer Adaro Energy, which will supply the coal needs of the power plant, owns 34 percent of the plant through joint venture firm Bhimasena Power Indonesia (BPI).
The coal producer, which is Indonesia’s second-largest after Bumi Resources, is slated to supply up to 7.5 million tons of coal to the plant each year, which would equal to 13.8 percent of the 54 million tons of coal produced last year by Adaro Energy.
The Batang power plant, which BPI has been working on since 2011, was initially scheduled for completion by 2016, but land-related disputes between BPI and local residents delayed construction until the Supreme Court issued in 2016 a ruling in favor of BPI.
Construction has been on track ever since, reaching 30 percent completion in 2017 and 60 percent last year.
“Most of the plant is done. The machines are in place. Only the little bits are left, such as little pipe works,” said Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry electricity directorate general secretary Munir Ahmad said on Sept. 26
