Tender for 20 MW geothermal project on Bacan Island, Indonesia to open this year

Tender for 20 MW geothermal project on Bacan Island, Indonesia to open this
year

The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry in Indonesia has indicated that a
tender for a 20 MW geothermal project on Bacan Island in North Maluku,
Indonesia could be held this year.

Reported this morning from Indonesia, a tender for a geothermal power
project in the regency of South Halmahera, North Maluku could be opened this
year.

The geothermal reserve of the site in Songa on Bacan Island is estimated at
140 MW.

"The Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Ministry has told the district
administration of South Halmahera that the tender would be open for the
project this year," head of the regional research and development planning
board (BPPPD) Daud Djubaedi said today.

The geothermal power plant to be built would have a capacity of 2×10 MW Daud
said.

The geothermal power plant is expected to be able to cope with shortage in
energy supply in South Halmahera especially on the island of Bacan, which
had relied only on supply from a 7 MW capacity power plant of the state
electricity company PLN..

Daud said the power plant is also expected to attract investment into this
region as shortage in power supply has been one of the main factors
discouraging investors from doing business in the area.

He said he could not yet said a date when the power plant would come on
stream but the ESDM Ministry has said its construction would be accelerated
to support the program to develop renewable energy and development of power
plants with a total capacity of 35,000 MW until 2019.

He said a number of nickel mining companies operating in South Halmahera
such as on the island of Obi are also building a gas fired power plant for
smelter.

The power output would be enough for the smelter and the household around
the factory, he added.

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John Diecker
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