Indonesia inaugurates Southeast Asia’s largest floating photo voltaic farm
by AFP Employees Writers
Cirata, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 9, 2023
Indonesia on Thursday inaugurated a $100 million floating photo voltaic farm, the biggest in Southeast Asia, because the nation seeks extra alternatives to transition to inexperienced, renewable vitality.
The Cirata floating photo voltaic farm, which is predicted to generate sufficient electrical energy to energy 50,000 households, is constructed on a 200-hectare (500-acre) reservoir in West Java, about 130 kilometres (80 miles) from the capital, Jakarta.
“Immediately is a historic day, as a result of our huge dream to construct a renewable vitality plant on a giant scale is lastly achieved,” President Joko Widodo stated in a speech to mark the event.
“We managed to construct the biggest floating photo voltaic farm in Southeast Asia, and the third largest on the earth,” he stated.
The mission, a collaboration between Indonesia’s nationwide electrical energy firm Perusahaan Listrik Negara and the Abu Dhabi-based renewable vitality firm Masdar, took three years to finish and value roughly $100 million.
The photo voltaic farm, funded by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Company, Societe Generale and Normal Chartered, consists of 340,000 panels.
The Indonesian authorities has stated it is going to try to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060.
However photo voltaic and wind energy every account for lower than one p.c of Indonesia’s energy combine, as Southeast Asia’s largest economic system nonetheless depends closely on fossil fuels to generate electrical energy.
The nation has pledged to cease constructing new coal-fired energy crops, but it surely has proceeded with the development of those who have been already deliberate regardless of an outcry from activists.
Indonesia can also be attempting to place itself as a key participant within the electrical automobile market because the world’s largest producer of nickel — a key part of lithiom-ion batteries — however some industrial parks that host energy-guzzling nickel smelters are powered by coal.
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