According to State Electricity Company (PLN) statistics, Sulawesi is recorded as the region outside Java Island with the highest peak load in Indonesia, reaching 1.8 Gigawatts. Compared to the installed power plant capacity of only 1 Gigawatt, this region still needs new power supply to meet its ever-increasing needs.
South Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, and West Sulawesi are the main areas that recorded peak loads of up to 1.3 Gigawatts in 2015. The available PLN power plants in these three regions are only 581 Megawatts. Even then, the amount of electricity generated is not maximized, as it only manages to provide 434 Megawatts (MW). Meanwhile, South Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan are ranked second with a peak load of 786 Megawatts.
PLN recorded a national peak load in 2015 reaching 33,381.08 MW, an increase of 0.18 percent compared to the previous year. The peak load of the Java-Bali interconnection system reached 24,258 MW, or a 1.50 percent increase from the previous year.
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