27-29 Jan, 2015 - Jakarta, INDONESIA
Le Meridien Jakarta
Le Meridien Jakarta
According to Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources as many as 15 investors are keen on investing in biogas and biomass power plants in the country.
Such interest shown by investors comes after the new government announced the regulation on purchasing power from biomass power plant and biogas power plant by PT PLN (Persero) in October. As per the regulation, the biomass electricity prices has been raised to Rp1,150 per kWh (if it's connected to a medium voltage network) and Rp1,500 per kWh (if it's connected to a low voltage network).
Jambi, East Kalimantan, Bangka-Belitung, South Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Bali and East Java are some of the potential areas that are sought by the investors for these bioelectricity projects.
The ministry is also keen on developing bioenergy plants in Sumatra, given the island's ample palm oil plantations. It's estimated that Sumatra alone can produce 15 Giga watts of biomass and biogas energy with half of them sourced from palm oil biomass.
The only challenge that the investors are concerned is the location of these areas which sometimes are inaccessible and difficult to connect to the transmission cables with PT PLN (Persero).
CMT's Bio-Markets conference coming to Jakarta on 27-29 January, 2015 will discuss the role of biomass for electricity production in greater detail.
Contact Ms. Hafizah at hafizah@cmtsp.com.sg or call +65 6346 9218 for more details.
