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Operation of 110MW Jatigede hydropower dam delayed to 2020
State-owned electricity company PLN expects the 110 megawatt (MW) Jatigede hydropower plant in West Java to become operational in 2020, a year later than initially planned.
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PLN spokesman Dwi Suro Abdullah (‘right’) stands inside the 2,200-meter tunnel that will channel water into the Jatigede hydropower plant in West Java on Thursday. (PLN/PLN)
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tate-owned electricity company PLN expects the 110 megawatt (MW) Jatigede hydropower plant in West Java to start operations in 2020, a year later than initially planned.
The company said in a statement on Thursday that the plant's construction had reached 73 percent completion after the developers, in October, finished the excavation of a 2,200-meter tunnel to channel water from the Jatigede Reservoir to the dam’s turbines.
“The short-term plan for the Jatigede dam is to fully coat the tunnel walls with concrete,” said PLN spokesman Dwi Suryo Abdullah.
China’s Sinohydro Corporation and Indonesia’s PT Pembangunan Perumahan (PP) began developing the US$140 million hydropower plant in 2014. PLN had expected to finish the project in 2019.
According to data from the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, PLN’s electricity production capacity in West Java was 6.261 MW last year, 32.6 percent of which came from coal-fired power plants. Hydropower plants contributed 28 percent to the total capacity.
