Helping Electrify Indonesia

Helping Electrify Indonesia

GE will supply its largest and most efficient gas turbine, the 9HA.02, at
the Tambak Lorok combined cycle power plant in Semarang, Indonesia.
GE announced that its largest and most efficient gas turbine, the 9HA.02
will be used at the Tambak Lorok combined cycle power plant in Semarang,
Indonesia. Operated by Indonesia Power, the Tambak Lorok facility will be
the first in in the island nation to use 9HA.02 technology to bring 780 MW
to the Indonesian grid - enough electricity to power the equivalent of more
than 5 million average Indonesian homes, GE said.

Available in outputs exceeding 510 MW per unit, the air-cooled 9HA.02 is a
four-stage turbine with a 3D aerodynamic hot gas path, cooling and sealing
improvements, single-crystal and directionally solidified blades and
double-wall casing for improved clearance control. The 14-stage compressor
section utilizes superfinished 3D aerodynamic airfoils with three stages of
variable stator vanes, and field-replaceable blades. The DLN 2.6+ combustor
with axial fuel staging has been proven through 45,000 starts and more than
two million operating hours, GE said.

In a related announcement, GE Power Services will provide 15 years of
maintenance and services for the Tambak Lorok facility.

The Tambak Lorok news came on the same day that the future of Indonesia's
power generation infrastructure were discussed at 'Powering Indonesia,' a
conference organized by GE and co-hosted by PLN and MKI to discuss future
challenges and opportunities for the country's energy ecosystem. Senior
government officials, including Sofyan Basir, president director of
state-owned power company PT Perusahaan Listrik Nasional (PLN), attended the
event in Jakarta, which also included more than 300 public and private
sector energy industry leaders and experts.

"Our technology, service capabilities and digital solutions are redefining
the possibilities for energy in Indonesia and changing the way power is
generated, delivered and maintained," said Handry Satriago, CEO of GE
Indonesia. "Together with our forward-thinking Indonesian partners, we are
leading the digital industrial evolution of power in the country - with
projects that set new standards in efficiency, reliability and innovation
and can serve as models for national energy companies and regions with
challenging and remote geographic conditions."

The adoption of digital technologies to enhance and optimize Indonesia's
energy assets and networks, combined with the deployment of the most
efficient gas turbines, ultra-super critical coal technology and the
upgrading of existing plants and transmission and distribution networks, are
all expected to provide Indonesia with substantial savings and significant
reductions in carbon emissions and help achieve Indonesia's goals for energy
efficiency, reliability and sustainability, GE said.

The conference also saw agreements being announced with PT Pembangkitan
Jawa-Bali (PJB), PT Indonesia Power and the Ministry of Villages,
Disadvantaged Region Development, and Transmigration. PJB operates 21
facilities including steam, gas and distributed power with a total
generating capacity of 10.7GW. PJB's goal is to double its capacity to 22 GW
by 2022.

Under the multi-year agreement, GE will deploy its Asset Performance
Management (APM) and Operations Optimization (OO) solutions across PJB's 21
sites, as well as establish a GE-designed Remote Engineering, Monitoring,
Diagnostics and Optimization Center in Surabaya, with a second Engineering
Center planned for Jakarta.

GE and PJB will also collaborate on the development of next generation
applications using GE's Predix platform for the Industrial Internet. In
addition to being the first Indonesian deployment of GE's digital solutions
to increase reliability and efficiency in power generation, transmission and
distribution, the use of digital technology by PJB across its remote
facilities provides an opportunity to uncover unknown inefficiencies and
unlock values overlooked in the system.

Finally, GE also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the
ministry on the implementation of a rural electrification program. This
will involve collaboration by both parties on the planning of the program's
development with GE providing support in power generation technology across
its portfolio of distributed power solutions that include hybrid gas or
diesel with photovoltaic, renewable power plants as well as digital power
solutions and microgrid solutions.

The technology assessment is expected to address challenging environment
across 13,000 remote, disadvantaged, outer, boarder and transmigration
villages being scheduled by the ministry for deployment commencing in 2018.


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John Diecker
APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.

www.aptthailand.com