Jakarta (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Two foreign investors - Thiess from Australia and Siemens from Germany - have agreed to cooperate with local company PT Petromuba to build a coal fired power plant in South Sumatra.
The Rp3 trillion (US$330 million) power plant to be built in a coal mines in Banyuasin will have a capacity of 300 megawatts. Construction of the project is to start early next year, Musi Banyuasin regent Alex Noerdin said.
Coal for the power plant will be supplied locally, head of the district mining and energy office Zuher Effendi said, adding that coal reserves in that district are sufficient to feed the power plant for 30 years.
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