Ministry sets procedures to secure electricity export, import permits

By Romel S. Gurky

Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik has put in effect a regulation on the procedures to secure relevant permits, to complement an earlier regulation that allows the exports and imports of electricity.

Dated October 30, the Ministerial Regulation No.26/2002 regulates how companies can secure permits to sell and purchase electricity to and from countries outside Indonesia. It also regulates permit for securing intra-nations interconnection electricity network.

The regulation says that the Ministry must decide to grant or reject a permit no longer than 30 working days after the proposal and all the required documents are submitted. A permit is valid for five years and can be extended.

The request for the extension must be submitted 60 days, at the most, before the expiry of the original permit. The permit must be revised if there are chances in the sale capacity, it said.

In April, the government issued a regulation to allow export and import of electricity from or to neighboring countries to support a power interconnection program to be implemented within members of ASEAN.

Editing by Dadan Wijaksana