Supporting The Development Of The Electric Vehicle Ecosystem, BNI Becomes The First Bank To Present PLN's SPKLU In Three Office Locations

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JAKARTA - PT PLN (Persero) in collaboration with PT Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. in providing infrastructure for public electric vehicle charging stations (SPKLU) in the country.

The collaboration was marked by the signing of the Cooperation Agreement (PKS) for the Provision of SPKLU Infrastructure in the BNI Area between the Director of Commerce and PLN Customer Management Bob Saril and BNI Corporate Banking Director Silvano Rumantir.

Representing the President Director of PLN, Darmawan Prasodjo, Director of Commerce and Customer Management of PLN, Bob Saril, explained that this collaboration is a continuation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) related to support for the development and development of SPKLU between PLN and BNI at the ETWG Presidency of the G20 Yogyakarta in March 2022. .

"PLN's collaboration with BNI is a form of synergy between SOEs in preserving the environment and supporting the government in pursuing the net zero emission target by 2060, by encouraging the energy transition through reducing carbon emissions in the transportation sector," said Bob in an official statement, Wednesday 27 April.

Bob explained, in this collaboration, PLN and BNI will provide SPKLU infrastructure in areas belonging to BNI. The provision of SPKLU in the BNI area begins with three units to be built in the Graha BNI Sudirman area, Jakarta, BNI Pejompongan Tower, Jakarta and the ITDC Nusadua area, Denpasar, Bali.

"We thank BNI for being willing to cooperate with PLN as the First Banking Party in the Investor Own Investor Operate (IO2) SPKLU Partnership in three locations and it is possible that there will be more BNI unit locations throughout Indonesia," he said. Bob.

Bob also hopes that this collaboration can be the first step for synergies to expand and develop other collaborations in the electric vehicle ecosystem. The movement of using electric vehicles in the future, which will be very massive because electric vehicles are more economical and more environmentally friendly, will bring Indonesia to become a superior nation and an advanced nation with a modern civilization.

As of March 2022, there have been 126 SPKLU units in Indonesia located in 97 locations in 48 cities in Indonesia. As a form of support to encourage the acceleration of the availability of battery charging infrastructure for electric motorized vehicles based on batteries, PLN has also opened up opportunities for business entities to collaborate together to become a partnership in providing SPKLU.

"Currently PLN has two SPKLU Partnership Service schemes, namely the Partnership Sharing Economy Model which was launched in October 2021, and the latest IO2 scheme," he added.

To support the progress of the SPKLU, PLN has also provided the Charge.IN application which can be accessed on PLN Mobile as a platform for using EV Chargers in charging electricity to KBLBB. The presence of a variety of service products is expected to encourage the public not to hesitate to use KBLBB with the benefits they get.

Through the signing of this PKS, BNI is the first bank to use the latest SPKLU supply partnership scheme from PLN, namely the IO2 SPKLU partnership. Through this scheme, PLN acts as the owner of the SPKLU business, and partners as business partners.

The SPKLU IO2 model partnership scheme consists of three packages, namely the Medium Charger Package, the Fast Charger Package, and the Ultra Fast Charger Package. With this program, PLN provides easy ownership services as well as licensing management for partners to be able to run businesses and improve the SPKLU ecosystem.

"In this case, BNI will appoint a BNI partner who is also an affiliated company with BNI. The company has the competence to manage SPKLU," said BNI Deputy President Director Adi Sulistyowati, who is familiarly called Susi.

According to him, BNI continues to increase its role in supporting the government's program, namely the clean energy transition, this is also in line with the theme that will be brought by the government in this year's G20 event where Indonesia is the host.

"This step is a tangible manifestation of BNI together with PLN to support the national energy transition, from fossil fuel-based energy to low-carbon and environmentally friendly energy sources, namely electrical energy," Susi added.