Suralaya power plant to borrow transformer from Paiton
Tuesday, June 26 2007 - 02:18 AM WIB
State electricity firm PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), through its wholly owned subsidiary Indonesia Power (IP) would borrow the transformer of its 3,400 MW Suralaya coal fired power plant unit 5 from PT Paiton Energy Company (PEC), a government official said.
PEC is controlled by Japanese firm Mitsui Corp.
“Actually, procurement of the transformer will be through tender. It will take at least 6 months to buy or rent the transformer, that’s why IP would borrow first from PEC,” Director General of Electricity at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources J Purwono said on Monday.
He said the Suralaya’s unit 5 would take a few weeks to enter the Java-Bali grid.
Earlier, PLN was looking for spare parts to fix the problem at the transformer of Suralaya’s unit 5 that has a power generation capacity of 600 MW.
Meanwhile, Suralaya General Manager Bambang Susianto confirmed that the company would borrow the transformer from PEC. “ We are still negotiating," he told to Petromindo.Com on Monday. (godang)