State Electricity Company PT PLN’s Main Distribution Unit for Greater Jakarta built a special substation to supply 5.54 megavolt amperes (MVA) of electricity to the Jakarta International Stadium (JIS) in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.
General Manager of PLN’s Main Distribution Unit for Greater Jakarta Doddy B. Pangaribuan spoke of having collaborated with PT Jakarta Propertindo, as executor of the JIS development project, to build a special distribution substation to supply electricity to the JIS stadium.
“With the establishment of this substation, the new icon of the capital city can operate optimally,” he noted in a statement received here on Friday.
Pangaribuan said his company and JakPro had established sound relations, so the coordination between them had run well.
Their collaboration began from the planning stage, all the way to energizing and testing lights and sound systems.
JIS used 1.4 MVA of temporary electricity from PLN for the period from 2019 to December-end of 2021, as a source of electricity during the construction period.
Temporary electricity is a service offered by the company to non-customers in need of electricity or to customers needing additional electricity within a certain period of time.
Moreover, PLN is also ready to provide a Renewable Energy Certificate for the stadium.
REC is an instrument that represents new and renewable energy attributes for every megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity produced by the State Electricity Company’s EBT generators.
By using REC, the JIS can prove that the energy being used did come from EBT-based power plants audited by the international ‘tracking’ system, APX TIGRs located in California, the United States.
“We strongly support the construction of JIS, of course, in accordance with our capacity as an electricity provider, which is to provide adequate supply of electricity, and of course, we are ready to maintain its reliability,” Pangaribuan added.
Source: Antara News