Godog RUPTL, PLN Map EBT As Baseload

PLN building (Photo; dock. Antara)

PT PLN (Persero) is redesigning the Electricity Supply Business Plan (RUPTL) which is estimated until 2040.

"Currently there is a discussion on changes to the RUPTL which is estimated to arrive in 2040," said PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo to the media at the Nusantara Power Connect 2023 event, Monday, September 11.

Darmawan explained that in this latest RUPTL, PLN and the government through the Directorate General of Electricity (Gatrix) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources will map out the mismatch between new and renewable energy (EBT) baseload large-scale areas in areas located far from high electricity demand areas.

"For this reason, in the new RUPTL planning, a Green enabling transmission line will be built, where the missmatch condition between the EBT energy source and the demand epicenter can be adjusted," Darmawan continued.

For this reason, Darmo continued, it is planned that there will be an additional 32 GW EBT baseload which will be included in the electricity ecosystem until 2040.

He further explained that previously in the RUPTL design process 3 years ago PLN had cut a total of 13 GW of coal-based power plants or Steam Power Plants (PLTU).

"And that means reducing GRK emissions by around 1.8 billion tons of CO2 for 25 years," added Darmawan.

In addition, there is a PLTU which has a contract with PLN with a capacity of 1.3 GW which has been canceled and is estimated to reduce GHG emissions by more than 150 million tons of VO2 in 25 years.

"Then at that time we designed the greenest RUPTL in the history of PLN and Indonesia, 51.6 percent of the additional capacity based on EBT. Then at that time it was announced that there was a net zero emission program in 2060," concluded Darmawan.