Paiton 3 plant starts commercial ops
Tuesday, March 27 2012 - 12:59 PM WIB
French power firm GDF SUEZ and its 70 percent-owned subsidiary International Power announced Tuesday that Paiton 3, a highly efficient 815MW coal-fired power plant East Java, has started commercial operation.
Paiton 3, located on Java Island, will be the first super-critical coal unit in Indonesia and the largest generating unit on the Java-Bali grid. The output from Paiton 3 will be supplied to PT PLN (Persero) under a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).
International Power owns 40.5% in PT Paiton Energy, which owns and operates the Paiton plants, including the existing Paiton units with a total capacity of 1,280MW. The other shareholders in PT Paiton Energy are Mitsui & Co., Ltd (40.5%), The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc (TEPCO) (14%) and PT Batu Hitam Perkasa (5%).