Korean-italian Jv Builds Hydro Plant in Indonesia

• 31 December 2015
• Local News
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Korean and Italian firms will build a major new hydropower scheme in Indonesia, partly financed by the World Bank.

Global Construction Review reports that Italy’s Astaldi Group and South Korea’s Daelim, in a joint venture with an Indonesian firm, Wika, will build the upper and lower dams for the planned $800m Upper Cisokan hydroelectric power plant on the Island of Java.

The World Bank will contribute $640m in loans while Indonesia’s public power utility, PT PLN (Persero) is providing $160m.

The plant will be the first of its kind for Indonesia and is expected to provide over 1,040 MW of peak-hour electricity. Indonesia needs a better electricity supply if it is to become a large, mid-income economic power, the World Bank said.

The JV must build the lower and upper dams, which are 75m and 98m in height respectively which will require around a million cubic metres of roller-compacted concrete.

Moving the water up and down requires 6km of tunnels up to 10m in diameter, and the JV must also build an underground power station, ventilation works and an electrical substation.

Work starts in early 2016 and is scheduled for completion in just over four years.