TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - State power company PLN has signed 11 power purchase agreements (PPA) with independent power producers. PLN will buy a total of 291.4 MW of electricity generated by power plants running on new renewable energy.
PLN president director Sofyan Basir said the partnership is for hydropower and a microhydro power plant projects.
"The power plants will be located in North and West Sumatera, Bengkulu, Lampung, Central Java, and South Sulawesi," he said in Jakarta, Friday.
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The agreement is a follow up to the signing of a previous PPA for new renewable energy power plants in August. At the time, PLN signed a PPA with 53 private companies to supply power plants with a total capacity of 257.17 MW.
With the agreement, PLN's power capacity from new renewable energy sources will reach 548.57 MW, excluding the capacity of its geothermal power plants.
"If we add those, the total capacity is around 1,000 MW," he said.
PLN is targeting to generate 1,300-MW capacity from its clean energy power plants by the end of this year.
VINDRY FLORENTIN
