PLN reports higher February electricity sales
Monday, March 14 2016 - 02:24 AM WIB
State-owned electricity company PT PLN said that electricity sales in February of this year increased by 10.41 percent to 16.52 TWh from from the level in the same month of last year.
PLN Head of Commercial Division Benny Marbun was quoted by Kontan as saying Monday that sales in the January-February period of this year reached 34.09 TWh, an 8.91 percent increase year-on-year.
The apper said that electricity sales to large industries increased by 10.74 percent in February, while sales to medium-scale industries rose by 3.53 percent.
The higher sales was attributed to the lower tariff and acceleration in the country?s economic growth, Benny said.
Meanwhile, Senior Manager for Public Relations at PLN, Agunung Murdifi said that sales in March is expected to increase again by 8-10 percent.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak