Indonesia to build battery energy storage system this year

JAKARTA, March 19 (Xinhua): Indonesia’s state-owned electricity company PT PLN and its subsidiaries have collaborated with the Indonesia Battery Corporation (IBC) to build a battery energy storage system (BESS) with a capacity of 5 Megawatts (MW) this year. This collaboration was confirmed in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on the strategic cooperation for the acceleration of the battery industry and the electric vehicle program in Indonesia between the PT PLN group and the IBC on March 16. The programme is a follow-up to the IBC’s work plan to start a storage battery ecosystem in Indonesia as an effort to accelerate the green energy transition and achieve the net zero emission (NZE) by 2060. The PLN’s Director of Corporate Planning Evy Haryadi said the company realized that the…

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