Palembang Retail Industry Switches Use PLTS As A Main Energy Source

The PLTS panel device on the roof of the Ogan Permata Indah (OPI) retail industry Mall. (photo: dock. intermediate)

The retail industry in Palembang City, South Sumatra has begun to switch to operating Solar Power Plants (PLTS) as the main source of electrical energy that provides many benefits to the environment.

One of the PLTS panel devices is installed on the roof of the Ogan Permata Indah (OPI) Mall retail industry, Jalan Governor H. A Bastari, Jakabaring, Palembang.

The head of the solar power company's commercialization sector Sun Energy, Dion Jefferson, in Palembang, Friday, February 10, said the PLTS panel installed at OPI Mal generated a power of 618 kilowatt peak(kWp).

From the PLTS operation, it provides many benefits, not only the retail industry but also the environment.

According to him, since last January OPI Mall has been able to save their electricity operational costs by up to 30 percent per month than previously using conventional electricity.

This is because this PLTS utilizes solar heat as a source of electricity, while conventional electricity is mostly from coal.

From there they have also contributed to maintaining environmental sustainability by suppressing air pollution (one of which is coal burning smoke).

He stated, due to the benefits produced, as a partner of the government, his party continues to encourage the acceleration of the acceleration of the use of solar power as the national New Renewable Energy (ETB).

Where his party throughout 2022 recorded that it had produced 468 million kWh of clean energy or the equivalent of 13 billion trees embedded for one year or had reduced 421 million kilograms of CO2.

"This effort is sustainable with the government's program in accelerating national ETB growth," he said, quoted by Antara.

Because, according to him, based on data from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, EBT growth in Indonesia currently only has an increase in the average increase of 4.3 percent per year. Meanwhile, the government is targeting the realization of the national EBT mix of 23 percent by 2025.

South Sumatra Governor Herman Deru said his party encouraged business people to start using solar panels as power plants because the number was still very minimal.

Currently, the use of large-capacity solar panels in South Sumatra has only been carried out by PLN by building a PLTS with a capacity of 2 mega watts at the Jakabaring Palembang sports activity center since 2018 and the South Sumatra Provincial Government office.

Then then target the mining and rice fields built by Mining Companies, such as in Muara Enim and its surroundings.

Meanwhile, for others, hotel players have just carried out, including Hotel Santika Premiere Airport, Hotel Santika Radial Palembang with a power capacity of 318.5 kWp.

"However, the realization of the EBT mix in South Sumatra has reached 20 percent in 2021 or has almost reached the target set by the government of 23 percent by 2025," he said.