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Singapore Business Review

The power plant can provide electricity to around 50,000 households in West Java.

DEVELOPING Indonesia’s first-ever floating solar power plant, which happens to be the largest in Southeast Asia, is already challenging enough. But installing it on the deepest reservoir to ever have such technology poses another layer of obstacles. That is why Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy firm Masdar and PT PLN Nusantara Renewables have come in — to develop two different anchoring systems to compensate for the location’s depth.

Fatima Al Suwaidi, president director of Masdar Indonesia, said that they installed over 300,000 bifacial solar modules on top of the Cirata Reservoir in the West Java Region covering a 250-hectare plot.

The Cirata Floating Solar Photovoltaic (FPV) has a capacity of 192 megawatts-peak or 145 MW alternating current, capable of powering around 50,000 households whilst reducing over 214,000 carbon dioxide emissions annually.