IP to manage Suralaya Baru and Labuan power plants

State owned electricity firm PT PLN will allow PT Indonesia Power (IP) to manage coal-fired power plants Suralaya Baru and Labuan coal that it plans to build as part of the government's crash program to add 10,000 MW to the national power supplies, Kontan daily reported on Friday.

 

“PLN's board of directors have told IP that the two power plants willl be entrusted to us,” IP's director Abimanyu Suyoso said after a closed-door hearing between the company and the House of Representatives' Commission VII.

Legislator Effendi Simbolon, a member of the commission, said the House had no reservations over the PLN plan.

 

Suralaya Baru has a generating capacity of 1 x 600 MW and Labuan would operate with a generating capacity of 2 x 300 MW.

 

The Labuan power plant has started construction in April 2007 with the consortium of Chengda Engineering Corporation of and PT Truba Jurong Engineering as the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, with PT Widjaya Karya acting as the sub-contractor.

 

Meanwhile, Suralaya Baru will be built by a consortium of two Chinese companies China National Technical Import Export Corp (CNTIC) and Zhejiang Eeletric Power Design Institute and Indonesian firm PT Rekayasa Industry. (*)