PLN Prepares 52 Charging Stations To Support The World Water Forum Summit

PT PLN (Persero) has prepared 52 charging stations along with personnel on standby to support the 10th World Water Forum Summit (KTT) in Bali on 18-25 May 2024.

PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo revealed, not only maintaining electricity supply, PLN is also committed to supporting the use of electric vehicles by delegates during the summit.

"Although we are used to preparing international events that require electric vehicle infrastructure such as the G20 and the previous ASEAN Summit, we are still preparing it optimally so that it can run even better," Darmawan said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, May 17.

Similarly, Director of Retail and Commerce Edi Srimulyanti said PLN has alerted all personnel and infrastructure for the smooth running of the World Water Forum agenda.

PLN, he said, has alerted 52 charging station infrastructure consisting of 12 ultra fast charging public electric vehicle charging stations (SPKLU), 20 standard charging SPKLU units, and 20 units of 2 generation general electric charging stations (SPLU).

"Our team has measured, calculated, and simulated the use of electric vehicles, all movements and mobilization have been studied in order to obtain the right battery power number in electric vehicles so that we can develop more accurate SOPs," said Edi.

In order to optimize existing SPKLU services, PLN has also mapped risks and mitigated properly, especially in terms of the reliability of the provision of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure.

During the World Water Forum in Bali, it is estimated that there will be 670 units of electric vehicles to be provided, including delegates and operational vehicles that will serve 43 countries and four international organizations.