JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – State-utility company PT PLN has on Monday (July 8) formalized a deal with fellow SOE PT Wijaya Karya Tbk to establish gas-fired power plant with design capacity of 184 MW in Aceh province.
The agreement was signed by PLN’s CEO Nur Pamudji and Wijaya Karya’s president Bintang Perbowo. The gas fuelled plant will be located at PT Arun LNG’s area in Lhokseumawe.
Based on the agreement, Wijaya works on the Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contract plus financing of the project. The agreement has no government guarantee, the first in PLN’s history.
The plant’s construction will take at least 18 months and is expected to generate electricity by late 2014 or early 2015.
by Hatman Bintang