Pursuing The Target Of 100 Percent Electricity Ratio, Following Is The Government's Strategy

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JAKARTA - The Director of Electricity Program Development at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Wanhar, revealed that the Government has made various efforts to equalize access to electricity as measured by the electrification ratio and the ratio of electrified villages. If the electrification ratio has reached 99.56 percent, the ratio of electrified villages in Indonesia has reached 99.73 percent until the second quarter of 2022.

"The government has three strategies in an effort to achieve a 100 percent electrification ratio," he said in an official statement, Thursday, August 11.

The first effort is through network expansion (grid extension), namely connecting electricity to villages close to the existing distribution network.

The second effort is through a mini grid or power plant construction by utilizing the potential of local New and Renewable Energy (EBT) whose areas are difficult to reach by expanding the electricity network and the people living in groups.

The third effort is through the construction of NRE power plants combined with Electrical Energy Charging Stations (SPEL) and Electrical Power Exchange Equipment (APDAL) for areas where people live scattered so that it is not possible to build an electricity network.

The New Installed Electricity Assistance Program (BPBL) called Wanhar fulfills the three strategies that have been implemented by the government.

"Through this program, the beneficiary community will get home electrical installations in the form of 3 light points and 1 contact box, inspection and testing of the installation of an Operation-worthy Certificate (SLO), connection to PLN and the first electricity token," he added.

Wanhar said the BPBL program has various benefits. Among them are recipients of assistance who become customers of PT PLN (Persero), people who are unable to obtain more reliable and safer electricity, helping children's learning process at night.

In addition, the availability of access to information and entertainment through the use of electricity for electronic media, as well as improving the standard of living by utilizing electricity for productive economic activities.

To note, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) through the Directorate General of Electricity is targeting 80,000 underprivileged households and those living in the leading, underdeveloped and outermost (3T) areas to become the target of the BPBL program through the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBN) for Fiscal Year 2022. .