The Chinese solar manufacturer Longi and Indonesian state-owned company Pertamina are planning to build a 1.4 GW solar cell and module production facility in West Java, Indonesia.
Chinese solar module manufacturer Longi and Ptamina New & Renewable Energy (Pertamina NRE), a unit of state-owned company Pertamina, plan a 1.4 GW Solar cell and module factory in Indonesia in Indonesia
The new production facility will be located in Deltamas, an integrated industrial, commercial and residential municipality in Cikarang, West -Java, Indonesia, which is described by the two companies as a strategic area that facilitates distribution and supply chains.
“This initiative supports the dedication of the Indonesian government to fulfill the domestic component level (TKDN) and is intended to meet the increasing demand for domestic PV modules for solar energy,” Ptamina said in a statement.
According to Pertamina, which quotes data from the Ministry of Industry, the current production capacity of the domestic solar panel in Indonesia is 1.6 GW per year. “Our new factory will increase the national production capacity to 3 GW, so that it can later support the goal of the government of 300-400 GW in 2060,” said it, without providing further details.
In mid-June Indonesia and Singapore came in to build a solar panel industry on the Riau Islands. The agreement includes plans to develop an integrated green industrial zone in the Indonesian province to support cross -border clean energy trade between the two countries. The zone will be in the regency of Karimun and on the island of Bintan, both near Singapore.
Earlier in May, SEG Solar, a US-based PV module manufacturer, commissioned a solar cell factory in Indonesia and produced his first N-type cell in the facility. The intention is for the factory to extend to an annual capacity of 5 GW with SEG -Zonne energy with the aim of developing a fully vertically integrated industrial chain in Indonesia that cover silicon bars, waffles, solar cells and modules.
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