Japanese building US$34.8 million energy-saving project in Indonesia

Could cut region’s energy consumption by 15%.

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization of Japan will carry out the project at the 1,400 hectare Suryacipta City of Industry in West Java, which is home to about 75 companies, many of which are multinational corporations.

The project will take some 30 months with state owned electric company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara as project executor and Sumitomo Corporation as the coordinator for a number of Japanese companies that will introduce the energy conserving technology.

The project aims to apply energy conservation technology and regulate demand and supply using an energy management system, with NTT Communications providing the technological platform as a common base for the overall system. Fuji Electric will provide technology for stabilizing electricity quality.

Mitsubishi Electric will implement the demand side management system and introduce a Factory Energy Management System to promote energy conservation.

NEDO and the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry’s directorate-general for new renewable energy and energy signed last week signed an MoU for the project.