Bekasi Power completed study for Kendal project

By Cepi Setiadi

PT Bekasi Power (BP), a wholly owned subsidiary of PT Jababeka Tbk, has completed the pre-feasibility study for developing a coal fired power plant with the total capacity of 2x300 MW in industrial estate Kendal, Central Java.

Erwin Loebis, Primary Energy Senior Manager of PT Bekasi Power, told Petromindo.com on Monday that the power plant will be developed to support the operation of the 2.700 ha industrial estate.

?We have completed the pre-feasibility study. Currently, we are still in land acquisition stage,? he said.

Erwin revealed that the project is expected to achieve commercial operation date (COD) by 2019. ?The first unit is expected to achieve COD by 2019, followed by the second unit in 2020,? he said.

The company will develop the project a joint venture with Sembawang Corporation Utility of Singapore with an investment cost of US$ 1.2 million per MW.

Editing by Johannes Simbolon