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Indonesia Pursuing Geothermal Potential in a Big Way (Renewable Energy Magazine)

Pertamina to expand capacity of geothermal power plants from 505 MW to 907 MW over the next four years

Indonesia's state oil and gas company Pertamina announced it will spend about $2.5 billion on geothermal power plant development through 2019. The company's president director, Dwi Soetjipto, said the investment fund will be used to enhance the capacity of the geothermal power plants from 505 MW to 907 MW over the next four years.

"We have put the development of geothermal energy in one of our strategic priorities and we've had the blue print for the development until 2019," Dwi Soetjipto said during the inauguration of the Kamojang Geothermal Plant in Garut, West Java.

Pertamina has been developing several projects on geothermal power plants, namely Kamojang 5 and Karaha in West Java Province, Ulubelu 3 and 4  in Lampung Province, and Lumut Balai 1 and 2 n South Sumatra Province.

Other geothermal power plant development projects include Lahendong 5 and 6, a small-scale plant of Lahendong and Sibayak in North Sumatra Province; Hululais 1 and 2 in Bengkulu Province; and Sungai Penuh 1 in Jambi Province.

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