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Wind farm
developer UPC Renewables Indonesia plans to invest up to $100 million for a
wind farm on the south Java coast to tap into Indonesia’s growing demand for
cheaper energy.
The
privately held company signed an agreement on Friday with the Ministry of
Energy and Mineral Resources to build 33 wind turbines off the coast of Samas
in Yogyakarta, a special region on the southern side of Java that faces the
Indian Ocean. The total capacity of the wind farm will be 50 megawatts.
“This will
be a milestone for a wind farm on a commercial scale,” said Kardaya Warnika,
director general of renewable energy at the ministry.
UPC
Renewables will partner with a local company, Binatek Reka Energi, which has
been studying and collecting wind-pattern data on the south Java coast for the
past four years.
The
agreement for the power purchase has yet to be signed, Kardaya said. UPC
Renewables has offered a purchasing period of 30 years at a price of Rp 1,200
(13 cents) per kilowatt hour for the first 20 years and Rp 700 per kWh beyond
that.
That
compares to an average production cost of Rp 1,100 per kWh last year and an
average selling price of Rp 729 per kWh at the state power company, PLN.
Kardaya
said UPC Renewables would start erecting the wind turbines once the power
purchase agreement had been signed, and planned to use local materials as much
as possible in the construction. It plans to complete the project in 15 months.
Steven
Zwaan, director of UPC Renewables, said
he hoped the process could be done swiftly so the wind farm could start
producing next year. He hopes that success with this project will generate
interest to build more facilities across Indonesia.
In PLN’s
2011-20 electricity supply plan, the utility forecast states that Indonesia
will needs to provide an additional 55,346 megawatts of power capacity over the
next decade, assuming yearly economic growth of 7 percent, at a total
investment estimated at $96.2 billion.
The plan
outlines an aggressive decline in using oil fuel for the country’s power,
shifting to cheaper gas and coal. Renewable energy would comprise 18 percent of
total power production by the end of this decade, from just 10 percent
currently. Wind energy, however, has yet to be included in the plan.
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