Wika seeks to grab 10% of 35GW power plant projects
Thursday, February 18 2016 - 01:04 AM WIB
IDX-listed engineering and construction firm PT Wijaya Karya Tbk (Wika) intends to grab about 10 percent of the construction business provided by the planned 35,000 MW power plant projects.
General Manager of Power Plant and Energy Department at Wika, Novias Surendra, said that the company will participate in power plant engineering and construction tenders held by state-owned electricity firm PT PL.N.
The current government has set a five-year plan to develop a combined 35,000 MW power plants until 2019, of which about 10,000 MW to be developed by PLN and the remainder by independent power producers.
Novias said that Wika, the country?s largest builder, has extensive experience in the construction of power plants in the country, pointing out it has so far developed five power plants with combined capacity of 200 MW.
He said that tenders being followed by the company include a 2x660 MW coal-fired power plant project in Lampung and the PLTU Java 5 2x1,000 MW coal-fired power plant project in Serang, Banten. In addition, Wika is also eyeing tender for a 800 MW combined cycle power plant called PLTGU Java 3 this year.
"PLN will soon announce tender for the PLTGU Java 3. Perhaps we will participate in the tender in the near future," he said.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak