Gandeng Envision, Bakrie Group Ready To Develop Green Energy-Based Industry In Central Sulawesi

JAKARTA - PT Bakrie & Brothers Tbk (BNBR) and Envision Group (Envision) have agreed to build cooperation in the field of environmentally friendly industries.

The agreement was outlined in the signing of the master agreement or the Head of Agreement (HoA) today.

The signing was carried out by the President Director & CEO of BNBR, Anindya N. Bakrie and Envision Founder & CEO, Lei Zhang, and was held in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on the sidelines of a series of G20 Summit events, Sunday, November 13.

With this collaboration, Bakrie and Envision intend to explore the prospects for developing Net Zero industrial technology, and have the potential to build the first Net Zero Industrial Park in Indonesia and will be located in the Central Sulawesi region.

The event was witnessed directly by the Minister of Investment and the Head of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), Bahlil Lahadalia and the Governor of Central Sulawesi Indonesia, H. Rusdy Mastura.

BNBR President Director & CEO, Anindya Bakrie said the agreement allowed the two companies to jointly explore the development of renewable energy projects, including those that utilize wind, solar, green ammonia and green hydrogen.

Anindya said, along with the series of downstream use and the development of an energy storage system development.

"We see the possibility of developing Net Zero digital solutions in Indonesia, by utilizing the system that has been created by Envision Digital comprehensively," said Anindya.

As is known, through VKTR startup subsidiaries, BNBR is trying to build integrated transportation electrification, as well as the EV battery ecosystem in Indonesia.

The network will consist of batteries for EV, EV-Bus, EV-Car, EV-Motorcycle, EV-Infrastructure, and battery recycling.

BNBR also plans to build a complete battery supply chain capacity from upstream to downstream, which will be carried out while still implementing strict ESG protocols.

"Together with Envision and other partners in the future, we hope to improve the security of the supply of nickel units and other raw materials, continue to expand the conversion capacity of nickel sulfate, produce batteries independently, and in the end can also produce pCAM and CAM independently in Indonesia," said Anindya.

For your information, Envision Group is known in the industrial world as the world's leading green technology company and technology provider Net Zero.

The company, based in North America, Europe and Asia, consistently promotes wind and the sun as a 'new coal', batteries and hydrogen fuel as 'new earth oil', and AIoT as a 'new network'.

Envision also calls Net Zero Industrial Park a 'new infrastructure' and the Net Zero technology ecosystem a 'new industry', which will eventually help create a 'emissionless world' or 'Net Zero World'.