REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Electricity State Company (PLN) would soon build solar cell manufacture in the first semester of 2012, the Executive Director of PLN, Nur Pamudji, said on Friday. PLN completes the construction with Wijaya Karya and Jasa Marga Company.

“There are two kinds of solar cell industry,” Pamudji said.

The common solar cell materials are crystalline silicon and thin film solar cell. Yet, Pamudji said, PLN had not decided the suitable material developed in Indonesia. According to the data in Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), the energy conversion of crystalline silicon can produce more electricity than thin film.

“Despite it has not further discussed, development of solar cell is a possibility,” he said.

Solar cell is cheaper than other energy resources and it is an electrical resource in remote location. The Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises appoints three state owned enterprises to cooperate in building the first solar cell manufacture in Indonesia.

The Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Logistics in the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, Sumaryanto Widayatin, said the manufacture would be in the form of venture business between PLN, Wijaya Karya, and Jasa Marga. The project probably needs 30 million USD or 275.52 billion IDR. The dominant portion will be from PLN. He added, Indonesia had about 70 billion tonnes of quartz sand and basic material for solar cell. 

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