The company's Director of Operations II Ferry Febrianto remarked that the physical construction of Lambur PLTM with a capacity to produce 2 x 4 MW of electricity has currently reached 100 percent and is entering the maintenance phase.
"We apply the Automatic Operation System, wherein all processing units operate automatically using Water Level Management and also use a Capacitor Bank to stabilize and correct the voltage required for auxiliary equipment, which can extend the equipment's useful life," Febrianto said in a statement here, Friday.
The project, which is located in Pekalongan, Central Java, with a contract value of Rp197.2 billion, has 85.3 percent of Domestic Component Level (TKDN).
It has passed all trial stages and will soon enter the Commercial Operation Date (COD) stage to supply electricity to the Java-Bali system using a 20-kV network, he said.
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State-run power generation firm PT Indonesia Power, a subsidiary of state electricity company PT PLN, has applauded PT Hutama Karya for the completion of the project.
President Director of Indonesia Power M. Ahsin Siqdi said construction of the Lambur PLTM had shown significant development and was targeted for completion in November 2022, with just minor and finishing work left pending.
"The completion of the Lambur PLTM is a gift from Indonesia for the G20, which will be announced as part of the New Renewable Energy (EBT) project in the PLN Group. The PLTM will be inaugurated along with other EBT plants throughout Indonesia," Siqdi stated.
Hutama Karya has also expedited the completion of the Tambak Lorok PLTGU in Central Java, as the work to build it is 96-percent complete.
Block 3 of the Tambak Lorok PLTGU, with an investment value of Rp4.8 trillion, will become the first power plant in the Asia-Pacific region that uses High-efficiency Air-cooled (HA) gas turbine technology and produces electricity with a capacity of 600-850 MW.
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