Indonesia Needs 150 Tons of Coal Annually, Ministry Says
16 March 2015 17:24 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Energy and Mineral Resource Ministry said that 150 million tons of coal is needed for the next five years to power electric power plants. Coal is said to be able to balance the growth of electricity required in the short run.
"We now need to secure coal [supply]," said Jarman, Director General of Electricity of the Energy and Mineral Resource Ministry on Sunday, March 15, 2015.
Coals can balance electricity needs along with the high economic growth in the short-term. Meanwhile, as Jarman explained, providing power plants with renewable energy requires a long time.
Based on data from the Energy and Mineral Resource Ministry and state-owned electricity company PLN, coal-fuelled power plants in Indonesia supply the largest amount of electricity with a 51.50 percent ratio, or 74.269 Gwh. Other power sources include natural gas (28.61 percent or 41.254 Gwh), followed by hydroelectric power plant (9.02 percent or 13.010 Gwh), oil-fuelled power plants (7.84 percent or 11.307 Gwh), and geothermal power plants (3.01 percent or 4.345 Gwh).
KHAIRUL ANAM
