PLN: Sidrap 70 MW wind power project to start operation in 2018
Friday, October 30 2015 - 02:52 AM WIB
State-owned electricity firm PLN said that a 70 MW wind power plant project in Sidrap, South Sulawesi, is targeted to start commercial operation in early 2018. Construction of the Sidrap project is scheduled to begin in late 2015.
Syah Darwin Siregar, PLN's Head of New and Renewable Energy Division told Petromindo.com that the project is entering the stage of construction of access road.
The project is being developed by PT UPC Sidrap Bayu Energi, a joint venture company of PT Binatek Energi Terbarukan, UPC Renewables Indonesia, and SunEdison. The power purchase agreement (PPA) with PLN for the Sidrap Wind Farm was signed by the President Director of PLN Sofyan Bashir during the 4th Indonesia EBTKE ConEx 2015 Conference in Jakarta on August 19.
The PPA for the Sidrap Wind Project is the second PPA for a utility scale wind farm signed in Indonesia this year. In May, PLN signed a PPA for energy from UPC?s Samas 50 MW Wind Project at Samas Beach, Bantul.
The Sidrap project is also part of a 300 MW Memorandum of Understanding that UPC Renewables Indonesia signed with the Governor of South Sulawesi in October 2014. The project will use twenty-eight 2.5 MW utility scale wind turbine generators. Once completed, this project will be the largest wind project in Indonesia. The Sidrap Wind Project will require an investment of US$ 180 million and will save an equivalent of 170,000 tons of carbon dioxide each year by replacing fossil fuel.
PT Binatek Energi Terbarukan (Binatek), is an Indonesian company with a long history development of renewable energy projects including hydro projects as well as biomass and biogas projects throughout Indonesia.
The UPC Renewables Group of companies is one of the most recognized active developers of wind and solar projects globally. UPC has developed over 2000MW of wind projects since it started in 1995 and is currently active in the Philippines with 81MW in operation since late 2014 and in China (one of the largest foreign companies to be active in the Chinese market with 172MW operating and 84 MW in construction) as well as North Africa with 120 MW going into construction in late 2015.
UPC Renewables Indonesia Ltd is active on 14 sites in Indonesia with a total combined generation potential of 2,800MW (once fully constructed). UPC Renewables Indonesia has ambitions to construct 1,000MW of wind energy projects in Indonesia before the end of 2019.
SunEdison is the world?s largest renewable energy development company. The company develops, finances, installs, owns and operates renewable power plants, delivering predictably priced electricity to its residential, commercial, government and utility customers.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak