Upadate: 9 firms submit bids for Pemalang power plant project
Thursday, July 30 2009 - 11:47 AM WIB
Of the 22 firms that picked up tender documents for the 2,000 MW Pemalang coal-fired power plant project in Central Java, nine have filled out the documents and sent them back to state owned electricity firm PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN).
The bidders are: 1. The Kansai Electric Power 2. China Shenhua Energy. 3. YTL Corporation Berhad 4. Suez ?Tractebel & J Power consortium 5. Korea Electric Power 6.Marubeni Corp 7. Mitsubishi Corp 8.CNTIC-Yuedan consortium 9. Mitsui Co, International Power consortium.
?We are evaluating the submitted bidding documents and expect to announce the winner by the end of this year,? PLN?s Director of Planning and Technology Bambang Praptono said on Thursday.
The project will be developed under the independent power producer (IPP) scheme with PLN to buy the power supplies under a 30-year power purchasing agreement (PPA), Bambang explained.
The winner will be given until 2010 to close financing for the project that construction can be started in 2011. With a construction period of three years, the PLTU Pemalang power plant is expected to start operation in late 2013 or early 2014, he said. (godang/bernard)