Cooperating With BPPT, Pertamina Inaugurates Three Locations Of Electric Car Gas Stations

Pertamina SPKLU. (Photo: Doc, Antara)

JAKARTA - PT Pertamina (Persero) officially launched the Public Electric Vehicle Charging Station (SPKLU). This product is the result of collaboration between Pertamina and the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT). This step is a manifestation of Pertamina's commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 2030 by 30 percent.

For your information, SPKLU is a place to charge electricity as fuel for electric vehicles in Indonesia, both motorbikes and cars.

Pertamina President Director Nicke Widyawati said the charging will be provided free of charge for electric vehicle users. However, it will be commercialized after the operational permit is pocketed by the company. Currently, the management is taking care of the operational permit documents.

"There are three locations that are in collaboration with BPPT and thank God they are already operating. We are still taking care of licensing so that this operation can be operated for the public, it can be used for free and will be commercialized when this permit is completed," he said, when launching SPKLU virtually, Thursday, August 5th.

The three SPKLU locations are located at several points at Pertamina's Public Fuel Filling Stations (SPBU). To date, the company has operated 6 fast charging SPKLUs located at COCO Fatmawati gas stations, COCO MT Lenteng Agung, COCO MT Haryono, COCO Kuningan, gas stations in Soekarno Hatta Airport area and at Puspiptek BPPT Serpong.

Meanwhile, the state-owned company targets 50 SPKLUs to operate in the next two to three years. Where, 50 SPKLUs are operated at Pertamina's COCO gas stations

"In addition, Pertamina is also developing related to supporting the government and developing this electric vehicle," he said.

On the same occasion, Head of BPPT Hammam Riz said that if the government was able to transform from oil-fueled vehicles to electric vehicles en masse, it would be able to save as much as 373 million barrels in 2050. For this reason, development steps must be taken immediately.

"Imports of gasoline are one million barrels in 2020 and 373 million barrels in 2050, assuming the import price of gasoline used and the exchange rate is Rp. 15,000 per dollar, the foreign exchange savings from imports of fuel is 5.86 billion dollars or around Rp. 87. 86 trillion," said Hammam.

According to Hammam, until now the government continues to draw up a road map in the development of national electric vehicles. After running in stages, the decline in fuel imports will begin to be seen since 2030.