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Construction begins on world’s largest geothermal plant
August 7, 2014
Construction begins on world’s largest geothermal plant
Construction will finally begin in the world’s largest geothermal power plant ? the Sarulla Geothermal Power Project in Indonesia. In the works since 1990, the $1.2 billion, 330 megawatt (MW) project is about to break ground, with the first phase online by 2016, and the entire project by 2018.
It’s been delayed by many factors, such as the 1990s Asian financial crisis, complex regulations and difficulty in finding financing for geothermal. One constraint has been an Indonesian law that lumps geothermal energy extraction in the same category as strip mining which was finally corrected by Parliament last year.
Although Indonesia is geothermal-rich, with about 40% of the world’s reserves, it currently taps into only 4-5% of that even with geothermal tariff. At 227 MW, Wayang Windu Geothermal Power Station in West Java is the largest project to date.
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