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Indonesia’s Geo Dipa Energi to

develop 400 MW of geothermal

INDONESIA INDONESIA’S PT Geo Dipa Energi (GDE) aims sustainability and energy security, one of which
to develop 400 MW of geothermal capacity in is as a supplier of electrical energy in Indonesia.
the Dieng area by 2023. The construction of the 10-MW Dieng Small
The company, the country’s only state-owned Scale PLTP is also one of the efforts and commit-
geothermal operator, set the target as it carried ments made by GeoDipa to support government
out initial tests at its latest 10-MW power plant programs, “said Dodi.
at Dieng. This $21mn project is being run by a special
The company already has 115 MW of capac- mission vehicle (SMV) set up by the Ministry of
ity at two geothermal projects in the Dieng and Finance and will receive loans from the state-
Patuha areas. It intends to build the Dieng 2 and owned Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Persero).
Dieng 3 projects, each with 55 MW of capacity. The plant features a first blow small-scale
Dodi Herman, Geo Dipa’s director of opera- turbine that is an experimental stage of turbine
tions and commercial development, said that the operation. There is currently no electricity load-
10-MW small-scale project had now been tested. ing, meaning that the activity of rotating this
The plant would provide considerable economic turbine has not yet produced electrical energy.
benefits and push forward the country’s energy As well as the 10-MW experimental unit, Geo
development in an environmental and sustain- Dipa is set to begin developing the Dieng Unit-2
able manner. project with a capacity of 55 MW, which will also
“As the only fully state-owned company in the supply the Java, Madura and Bali (Jamali) elec-
geothermal sector, GeoDipa is committed to be tricity systems.
able to meet the target of using new renewable “Preparation for drilling wells first, drilling
energy into electricity through the utilisation of approximately 10 wells,” said Dodi.
geothermal potential,” said Dodi. This project is targeted for a commercial
The 10-MW Dieng Small Scale PLTP has also operation date (COD) in 2023.
been included in the government’s National Stra- As well as Dieng-2, Geo Dipa is also working
tegic Programme and Geothermal Road Map. It on Patuha-2 in parallel, with the same capacity.
is also listed in the government’s Priority Activi- Geo Dipa has obtained up to $335mn in
ties for Monitoring. funding from the Asian Development Bank
“Geothermal development as a renewable (ADB) to finance projects across the country
energy source is very important in ensuring worth $400mn.™

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