PT PLN (Persero) has alerted 81,591 personnel to secure electricity supply during the Christmas and New Year's Alert period which will take place from December 15 to January 8, 2024.

The personnel rushed consisted of 18,427 PLN employees and 63,164 field personnel who would be on standby 24 hours.

"The 2024 Christmas and New Year celebrations will fall on Monday. This will be a long weekend that is usually used by people to travel, either back to their hometowns or holidays. Therefore, PLN ensures the reliability of electricity so that people can celebrate Christmas and New Year's 2024 comfortably," said Darmawan at the 2023 Christmas and New Year's Electricity Alert Calls. 2024, Wednesday, December 20.

Darmawan added that the personnel guarding the field will be spread across 1,853 PLN standby posts throughout the country.

Not only that, he said, the personnel were also equipped with equipment and support fleets, in the form of 1,731 generators, 735 Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), 1,091 Mobile Substation Units (UGB), 116 Mobile Cable Units (UKB), 395 Cranes, 3,756 Cars, & 3,318 Motors.

"We will also alert PLN officers at locations for Christmas and New Year celebrations, such as churches and tourist attractions, as well as airports, ports and bus terminals which are points of community mobilization. We have also coordinated with TNI and POLRI Security to secure the National Vital Objects (Obvitnas) that have been set by the government," said Darmawan.

He further explained, nationally, PLN has prepared electricity supply for Christmas 2023 and New Year 2024 by seeking sufficient power for Generation, Transmission and Distribution generally in normal status.

PLN predicts that during the Christmas and New Year holidays there will be a peak electricity load of 43 Gigawatts (GW), with a supply capacity of 50 GW, so that there is an operating reserve of 7 GW.


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