PLN Supply 1,000 Megawatts Of Electricity For Mongondow Industrial Estate

Illustration of PLN workers. (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - PT PLN (Persero) will meet the electricity needs of new investments in the Mongondow Industrial Estate (Kimong), North Sulawesi, so that it can attract investors to invest in the area.

General Manager of PLN Main Unit for North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi and Gorontalo (UIW Suluttenggo) Leo Basuki said, in the development of the Kimong Industrial Estate project, PLN is committed to maintaining reliable electrical energy availability, starting from the development project until it is fully operational according to investor needs.

The projected electricity demand in this area reaches 1,000 megawatts (MW).

"We are ready to provide the electricity needed and not only that we provide a renewable energy certificate (REC) service as part of the new renewable energy campaign by PLN," Basuki said in a statement to the media, Thursday, May 19.

In this series of visits, PLN brought with them existing investors to directly visit PLN's electricity infrastructure, namely the Lolak Substation to convince investors that PLN is infrastructure ready to accelerate the planned investment.

The meeting between the Government, PLN and investors is a signal of good commitment to accelerate the development plan for this strategic project.

On the same occasion, Kentjana said that in the Kimong project it is planned to build a mineral processing and refining plant (smelter) with the type of aluminum mineral, the production capacity of the first stage is estimated at up to 500,000 tons of metal, and the investment is approximately 1 billion US dollars.

The development of the Kimong industrial area has the potential to encourage regional and national economic development with the existing downstream program.

According to Kentjana, the guarantee of reliable electricity supply from PLN has convinced Kimong investors to firmly invest in the project, which aims to make Bolaang Mongondow one of the mecca of industry in Indonesia.

"We are very grateful to PLN for bringing it directly to the PLN site. And we hope that in the future when we have started investing, we can cooperate more smoothly and further and help economic development," said Kentjana.