Bali Government design water electrical power plant or micro hydro and solar cell.
I Gusti Nyoman Sura Adnyana, the head of Bali Public Work Department, said “the plan is one of the methods to anticipate the need of electricity in Bali.”
In addition to anticipate the electrical crisis, the power plants are also needed to supply electricity to remote hamlets that haven’t received the luxury of electricity at this moment.
Sura Adnyana said that in order to develop the micro hydro power plants, the department already analized and studied several rivers and dams in Bali such as Telaga Waja River, Ayung River and Telaga Tunjung dam.
“The rivers and dams in Bali are possible to develop the micro hydro power. However, we are still having trouble in funding of the project,” he added. There is another problem accur in the development plan. The rivers or dams are available in the area where electricity is abudant and the remote hamlets didn’t have any access to the electricity source.
If the possibility of power plants is able to be development, then the problem of the lack of power could be solved but the remote area is still having difficulties in getting the electricity.
The hamlets usually located in the mountain areas so it is very difficult to place electricity poles. For the area that didn’t have any rivers or water, the governmnet plan to build solar power. The area such as Karangasem is very difficult to develop micro hydro power so the need of solar power is crusial.
Sura Dnyana said that the solar powers will not only being developed in Karangasem but also in Buleleng and Nusa penida. “Bali Government had placed 695 solar panels which are the support from Indonesian Governmnet and 45 panels from the government. The availability of electricity will help to increase the welfare of the people in the village because most of the people work as craftmen,” he added.
There is great hope that the developmnet of power plants will affect tourism in Bali. The need of electricity for hotels and other tourism facilities can be fulfilled. Based of the data from Bali Electrical Company (PLN), 45 villages in Bali didn’t receive electricity yet and the waiting lists for the electricity are 40.000 people. PLN planed that in 2010, the waiting lists will be around 10,000 people.

News by International Bali Post

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