Probolinggo, East Java - Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik is scheduled to inaugurate the 815-megawatt Paiton steam power plant (PLTU) unit-3 here on Tuesday, declared PT Paiton Energy's president director, Low Kian Min, in a press statement. Low Kian Min remarked that the Paiton steam power plant unit-3 project, which cost US$1.5 billion, has been completed in 44 months - or one month ahead of schedule. He noted that the project uses the supercritical boiler technology, which consumes coal more efficiently. He added that the Paiton steam power plant unit-3 was built to increase and strengthen power supply to Java, Madura, and Bali or Jamali. "The Paiton unit-3 will increase the power capacity of the Jamali network by 5 percent," Low Kian Min remarked. According to him, the additional power supply from Paiton unit 3 is aimed at easing the region's increasingly limited electricity supply. The power generated at the plant will be sold to PT PLN (Persero), Indonesia's state-owned power utility company, for 30 years, based on a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA). The new supercritical-pressure coal-fired power plant has been constructed at a site adjacent to an existing power plant in the Paiton complex, approximately 150 kilometres southeast of Surabaya, the provincial capital of East Java. The equity of PT Paiton Energy is owned by Mitsui & Co; IPM Eagle LLP, a joint venture between International Power of the UK and Mitsui & Co Ltd; the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated (TEPCO); and PT Batu Hitam Perkasa of Indonesia. Supercritical-pressure coal-fired power generation has higher power generation efficiency than subcritical-pressure power generation, and it is capable of reducing coal consumption in relation to power output, which results in lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. (*)

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