Visiting Purwakarta, Jokowi Inaugurates 192 Megawatt Solar Power Plant

President Joko Widodo left for Purwakarta, West Java, to inaugurate the Cirata Floating Solar Power Plant (PLTS), Thursday 9 November (doc Setneg)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) left for Purwakarta, West Java, Thursday to inaugurate the Cirata 192 Megawatt Peak (MWp) Floating Solar Power Plant (PLTS) and handed over food assistance for government food reserves.

President Jokowi and a limited entourage departed from the National Monument Helipad, Jakarta to the Purnawarman Stadium Helipad, Purwakarta Regency using the Indonesian Air Force's Super Puma Helicopter on Thursday 9 November morning, as quoted from the statement from the Press Bureau of the Presidential Secretariat.

Arriving in Purwakarta, President Jokowi will inaugurate the Cirata 192 MWP Floating Solar Power Plant (PLTS) and visit the Citeko Market to provide a number of assistance and basic necessities to traders and the community.

On Thursday afternoon, the President is scheduled to hand over a number of food aids for government food reserves to a number of beneficiary families (KPM) located in Sahe Purwakarta Field.

After the activities in Purwakarta Regency were completed, President Jokowi was scheduled to leave for Jakarta to continue his activities.

Based on the presentation of PT PLN Persero on the previous occasion, the Cirata Floating PLTS is located on the Cirata Reservoir and spreads over an area of 200 hectares in 13 blocks with more than 340,000 solar panels.

The PLTS is capable of producing 245 million kilowatt hour (kWh) of clean energy per year and is capable of flowing electricity equivalent to more than 50 thousand houses and will reduce carbon emissions by more than 200 thousand tons per year and investment needs for the Cirata Floating PLTS reaching IDR 1.7 trillion.