Guard Electricity Supply Without Dizziness, Managing Director Of PLN: Christians With Worship

JAKARTA - PT PLN (Persero) has succeeded in maintaining electricity supply at Nights and Christmas Day, especially in churches throughout Indonesia to ensure Christians can worship with joy.

PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo said PLN has alerted all electricity systems throughout Indonesia.

Starting from the primary energy supply side for all generators to standby on the side of the transmission and distribution network.

"We prepare it as well as possible so that the worship atmosphere can run smoothly and with joy because the electricity supply is safe," said Darmawan.

Darmawan detailed several areas as centers for organizing Christmas services.

The North Sumatra region has a capacity of 1,933 Mega Watts (MW) with a peak load of 1,686 MW, DKI Jakarta capable power of 7,801 MW with a peak load of 3,332 MW, North Sulawesi power of 950 MW with a peak load of 719.44 MW, East Nusa Tenggara capable power of 337.95 MW with a peak load of 224.07 MW, and Papua & West Papua capable power 517.6 MW with a peak load of 304.37 MW.

"Regarding electricity adequacy for the Nataru period, the supply capacity is 44.4 Giga Watt (GW) with a projected peak load on New Year's Eve of 34.6 GW. This means that in terms of electricity supply, PLN is very sufficient to cover all community activities with operational reserves of 9.8 GW. With this sufficient reserves, we can serve the community well," he explained.

Darmawan added that coal stockpiles, gas supply availability and fuel for power plants are in a safe position nationally.

PLN designed an interconnection system where there is a balance load setting so that it can provide reliable electricity supply.

"We are also building the digitization of our generating governance, transmission, distribution, and customer service. This year's PLN electricity system is in the best reliability in the history of PLN," concluded Darmawan.

PLN has set a Nataru 2023 holiday alert period from 19 December 2022 to 4 January 2023.

During this standby period, PLN alerted more than 3,000 posts and 78,000 personnel spread throughout Indonesia to maintain the reliability of electricity.