Article: Indonesia: Papua to build 2000-MW power plant.

Byline: prashant03

The Papua provincial administration is planning to build a 2,000 -megawatt (MW) hydro-power plant to meet electricity demand and to support infrastructure needs in Papua.

We are finishing the feasibility studies for the hydro-power plant. It requires more than Rp 5 trillion about US$525 million , Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu said Tuesday after meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The plant will eventually generate 2,000 MW in total, but we ll start with a 300-MW power plant and build it in steps.

He said the administration would be one of the financiers in the hydro-power plant project, while also ...

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