Electricity use down

JAKARTA (JP): Electricity utilization in Java and Bali declined 50 percent to 4,000 megawatt hours a day since three days before Idul Fitri, the president of state electricity company PT PLN has said.

Djiteng Marsudi said the reduction was expected to last until tomorrow and helped the company save generation costs in Java and Bali, which have an interconnected distribution system, by Rp 8 billion (US$3.35 million) a day, because it was able to shut several power stations which used with oil and natural gas. (10)