PGE: Two geothermal power plants to start operation soon

PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE) has set a target for commercial operation date (COD) of two geothermal power plant (PLTP) projects including the 30 MW PLTP Karaha unit 1 in West Java and the 55 MW PLTP Ulubelu unit 4 in Lampung to be made in the first semester of this year.

PGE said in a statement on Thursday that once the two power plants start operation, the company?s installed capacity of geothermal power plants will increase to 617 MW.

PGE President Director Irfan Zainuddin said in the statement that this year, the company has allocated investment worth US$398.9 million including for the two power plant projects.

Irfan said that the company will continue to accelerate the development of its geothermal power plant projects.

Since last year, the company has been carrying out in parallel seven geothermal power plant projects including Sungai Penuh (upstream project 1x55 MW) with COD target in 2020, Hululais (upstream project 2x55 MW) COD target in 2019 (unit 1) and in 2021 (unit 2), Ulubelu (total project 2x55 MW) COD for unit 3 was made in July 2016, and unit 4 set for COD in June of this year.

PGE is also currently developing a number of other geothermal power plant projects including Lumut Balai Unit 1&2 (total project 2x55 MW) with COD target in 2018 (unit 1) and in 2019 (unit 2), Lumut Balai Unit 3&4 (total project 2x55 MW) with COD target in 2022 (unit3) and in 2024 (unit 4), Karaha (total project 1x30 MW) with COD target in June 2017.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak