Chevron to launch geothermal power plant<\/p>\n
Leony Aurora, The Jakarta Post\/Bandung<\/p>\n
U.S. energy giant Chevron is ready to launch a 110-megawatt (MW)
\ngeothermal power plant project in Garut, West Java, after a team
\nwas set up to hopefully resolve a variety of problems with the
\nlocal administration.<\/p>\n
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro
\nwill preside over the opening of the Dradjat 3 project on Nov.
\n29, the company's local unit president Wahyudin Yudiana said here
\non Thursday on the sidelines of a symposium held by the
\nAssociation of Indonesian Oil Engineering Experts (IATMI).<\/p>\n
"We can resolve the problems with the Garut administration,"
\nsaid Yudiana. "We have a team, which includes people from the
\nlocal administration as well as the central government, to find
\nthe best solutions regarding their wishes," he explained, but did
\nnot go into the specifics of the problems encountered.<\/p>\n
Yudiana said the electricity produced by the plant, the third
\nof its kind in the complex after the 55-MW Dradjat 1 and 90-MW
\nDradjat 2, would be sold to the state power firm PT Perusahaan
\nListrik Negara (PLN).<\/p>\n
"The price will be above 4 U.S. cents (per kilowatthour),"
\nsaid Yudiana.<\/p>\n
The construction of the Dradjat 3 plant was already commenced
\nat the beginning of the year, with operations scheduled to begin
\nin the second semester of 2006, he said.<\/p>\n
Geothermal resources in Dradjat are abundant, clean, renewable
\nand able to easily generate up to 330 MW of electrical power.
\nCurrently, more than half of the area's geothermal resources
\nremain untapped.<\/p>\n
Next year, Chevron will also conduct a feasibility study on
\nthe possibility of building a fourth geothermal power plant in
\nthe same area, said Yudiana.<\/p>\n
Located in the "ring of fire" volcano belt, Indonesia is
\nthought to have about 40 percent of the world's geothermal
\nreserves, equivalent to a total of 27,140 MW of power.<\/p>\n
While the country has several operational geothermal power
\nplants, their combined capacity currently is only 807 MW or about
\n3 percent of the country's total geothermal potential.<\/p>",
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