NTB Provincial Government Supports The Co-Firing Biomas Program Initiated By PLN

JAKARTA - The West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Provincial Government supports the Co-Firing Biomas program initiated by PLN in realizing the commitment of Net Zero Emission (NZE) or Zero Carbon Emission in 2050.

Deputy Governor of NTB, Sitti Rohmi Djalilah said Co-Firing Biomass is one of the opportunities expected by the NTB Provincial Government to realize Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050.

"Currently we are designing a formula on how to support the zerowaste program, NTB Hijau, community empowerment, and renewable energy so that it can be structured and step by step", she said in a written statement, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, September 21.

She explained that Co-Firing Biomas is currently more flexible, not only from garbage, but also from small wood, and wood shaving marks, for example, can be obtained from fast-growing plants such as Lamtoro, Gamal, and Indigofera.

"Now it's more flexible, not only from garbage but from branches, small pieces of wood, all of the wood cutting marks can be used, so the types are increasingly widespread", she said.

Meanwhile, the General Manager of PLN UIW NTB, Sudjarwo, said that PLN had carried out Co-Firing to replace coal with garbage at the Kebon Kongkok Final Disposal Site, West Lombok.

"The replacement of coal with this waste is also assisted by rice husks, wood powder, but the presentation is still 3 percent small from coal needs", he said.

According to him, efforts to increase Biomas Co-Firing capacity are building energy forests and planting side effects trees.

"There is a cacah or wood chipper (wood chipper, organic waste, corn bongol), Equipment to increase Kalori Bomasssa and TJSL machines for corn performers", he said.

Head of the NTB Environment and Forestry Service (DLHK), Julmansyah, said it was related to energy forests that could be utilized, such as the use of critical land or dry land, deforestation-based land, and the results of forest additions that were widely spread on Sumbawa Island.

"The legal forest area that can be a site for the development of energy forests. We have a social forestry area of around 78 thousand hectares, which has not been separated by protected forests and production. However, the energy forest development site area needed by PLN will be allocated from the social forestry area in the production forest function and it is spread across Sumbawa Island", he said.