TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - State-power company PLN plans to revise its power supply business plan (RUPTL) for 2017-2026, because the current sales target set out in the plan is deemed unrealistic.
PLN's director of corporate planning Syofvi Felienty Roekman said that today's condition is not as they expected when launching the 35,000 MW program.
According to Syofvi, since the 35,000 W program was launched, electricity sales growth has been lower than the RUPTL's target of 8.3 percent per year. Because of the changes in consumption growth, the target must be revised.
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Electricity sales as per September grew 3.1 percent with a volume of 163.6 terawatt-hours (tWh), far below last year's 7.1 percent growth (yoy) with a volume of 158.6 tWh.
Syofvi said that the program's capacity target will remain the same, and only the schedule will be changed. The construction of several power plants will be rescheduled to prevent electricity surpluses to increase.
Sometime ago, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan asked PLN to adjust its RUPTL. Jonan wants to have new power plants with a total capacity of 17,000 MW by 2019. Additional capacities of up to 35,000, according to Jonan, can be realized in 2024.
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