Grouting & Shotcrete PLTP Sarulla Tapanuli Utara | PT. Debonair Nusa Karya.

Sarulla geothermal project in North Sumatra (North Sumatra), which is projected to hit a national electricity crisis, will be fully operated at 2016.

President Director of PT. PLN Nur Pamudji, at Medan, said that Sarulla Geothermal Power Plant (PLTP) is has most capacity, among other project that involve in Second Stage of 10.000 MW Power Plant Accelerated Development Programs, where nearly 50 percent or 4952 MW comes from geothermal energy.

“Sarulla project completion process, does take longer time than predicted before, because at the beginning too many obstacles that obstruct the implementation of the project, but at the current state situation really conducive, certainly Sarulla will start produce electricity in 2016,” he said.

The PLTP Sarulla’s generated electricity by will be purchased by PLN with an average price of 6.79 cents per kWh.

Proyek berkapasitas 330 MW yang berlokasi di Wilayah Kerja Pertambangan (WKP) Panasbumi Sarulla milik PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE), di Kabupaten Tapanuli Utara (Taput) dan Kabupaten Tapanuli Selatan (Tapsel) Sumut, kontraktornya PT PGE yang merupakan konsorsium Medco-Ormat-Itochu-Kyushu (Konsorsium).
The project with a capacity of 330 MW was located in the Mining Working Area (WKP) Sarulla Geothermal belongin to PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE), in North Tapanuli (Taput) and South Tapanuli (Tapsel) of North Sumatra, PT PGE (the contractor) is a consortium of Medco-Ormat- Itochu-Kyushu (Consortium).

Nur Pamudji asserted, Geothermal has become a national priority sectors of energy, which is have the enormous potential, estimated to reach 29,000 MW.

Currently Indonesia with installed capacity of about 1,341 MW is the third largest producer of geothermal electricity in the world, after the United States and the Philippines.

Dia menjelaskan, pembangunan PLTP Sarulla akan dibagi dalam tiga tahap dan akan selesai pada tahun 2018 atau merupakan tahap ketiga.
He explained, Sarulla geothermal power plant construction will be divided into three stages and the final stage will be completed in 2018.

“PLN hoped that the project runs smoothly because it can help reduce the energy crisis,” he said.

Furthermore, the Sarulla’s electricity supply will be projected for an exports to Malaysia.

He said the state reserves for North Sumatra that was mediocre due to the rapid growth of industrial and other commercial activities that have not been fully met PLN supply, actually in 2004, PLN had asked the governor to build hydropower Asahan 2, but it was given to another company that in fact do not have the funds so that the project did not running until today. However, for the construction of Asahan 3, PLN had issued a permit on January 4, 2012 because it has given by North Sumatra Governor Gatot Pujo Nugroho, who was still acting as Governor of North Sumatra.

“It indeed supposed to be like that, where the head of the region should be cooperative with PLN. Try that in 2004 was given permission, then Asahan 2 can already woken up, so there will be no deficit of electricity in North Sumatra,” he said.

North Sumatra’s Secretary of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo), Admiral Adyaksa said the electricity supply industry is needed very much today. It is defect North Sumatra development since less of electricity energy is difficult to obtain.

PT. Debonair Nusa Karya contributing on the making of the grouting and shortcrete at cliff formation, to avoid landslide. The drilling process done horizontally. Spent 1000 holes with diameter 4 inch and maximum 18 meters in depth, it takes 2,5 months for PT. DNK to complete the shotcrete and grouting project.