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| Tuesday, 20 April 2010 10:27 | |||||||
Page 1 of 2 JAKARTA:
PT State Electricity Company (Persero) are ready to mine coal to
provide certainty of supply of fuel for a company is expected to
increase to 38 million tons in 2011.
Plan to mine coal would be cooperated with the owner of mining rights (KP) other. PLN President Director Dahlan Iskan admitted during the company's electricity red plates was dependent entirely to coal suppliers. Therefore, the Company plans to hold an open tender in May 2010 to holders of mining rights who are interested in working directly for coal mining. "All this depends on the supply of electricity from a supplier of coal to 100%. So we [PLN] KP invites owners to cooperate directly via an open tender to be more transparent," he said yesterday. This cooperation will secure supplies. This dependence will cause the supply tersendatnya if anything happens that threatens the availability of plant fuel. Dahlan said so far it does not have electricity SOEs colliery itself so that it always depends on the supplier. In fact, he continued, Thailand and India's electricity company has coal mining rights in Indonesia. Related to the readiness of the power company red plate was made to mine coal, Dahlan revealed his side have prepared internal funds to invest around Rp5 trillion. "Although the tendering process carried out this year, will enter the program next year. PLN have provided funding for Rp5 trillion because of this corporate action of pure electricity." For mining, he said, would be handed over to PT PLN Coal, a subsidiary of PLN, which is engaged in coal mining. Tends to poor Meanwhile, the financial performance of state electricity company PT (Persero) during the last 5 years, the period of 2004-2008 is considered likely bad, although in 2009 the Company had recorded a profit Rp10, 35 trillion. Members of the House of Representatives Commission VII M. Romahurmuziy reveals that red plate power company loses Rp12, 30 trillion at the end of 2008. In fact, in 2004 the company recorded a loss of Rp1, 74 trillion. "PLN continues to lose money because the burden of operational costs that are dominated by the cost of fuel," he said.
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