Despite lawsuits and local protests, new coal-fired power plants are still being built on Java to supply an already saturated grid Despite lawsuits and local protests, new coal-fired power plants are still being built on Java to supply an already saturated grid
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In Indonesia, a village held hostage by coal pleads for change
by Della Syahni on 4 February 2021
Two new coal-fired power plants, PLTU 9 and 10, are being constructed in northwestern Java to provide an additional 2,000 MW of installed electricity capacity in Indonesia.
Residents complain the cluster of eight existing coal plants in the area have already caused problems with public health, agriculture and water pollution.
Analysts question the logic of constructing new plants in the Java-Bali grid, where supply already exceeds demand, and in light of the state utility’s mounting debts.
BANTEN, Indonesia Every day, Subur and his wife walk past giant chimneys, painted red and white at the crown, pouring smoke out of a cluster of coal plants.
Indonesian Village With Seven Coal Plants Resists Arrival of Two More The coal plants in Suralaya run day in and day out to feed demand for power in the nearby capital, Jakarta, and its densely populated periphery.
This article originally appeared in Mongabay. Della Syahni
February 4, 2021
Every day, Subur and his wife walk past giant chimneys, painted red and white at the crown, pouring smoke out of a cluster of coal plants.
Subur, 70, says he had no idea that two new coal-fired plants were to be built around his village of Suralaya: the ninth and 10th plants to be built in this corner of Java, Indonesia the world’s most populated island.