Indonesia building tens of biofuel plants, including micro-sized facilities
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Over the past few months, there has been a lot of news on Indonesia's biofuels crash program, with the state announcing that it is investing some US$ 22 million by 2010 in the sector (earlier post). The OPEC member's bioenergy initiative is expected to bring 2.5 million jobs in three years time.
We are now getting a glimpse behind the formal plans and into the actual construction of plants. An overview:
ethanol :: biodiesel :: biomass :: bioenergy :: biofuels :: energy :: sustainability :: palm oil :: sugar cane :: cassava :: jatropha :: Indonesia ::
Over the past few months, there has been a lot of news on Indonesia's biofuels crash program, with the state announcing that it is investing some US$ 22 million by 2010 in the sector (earlier post). The OPEC member's bioenergy initiative is expected to bring 2.5 million jobs in three years time.
We are now getting a glimpse behind the formal plans and into the actual construction of plants. An overview:
- remarkably, the government itself has dropped plans to build large-scale facilities and has instead chosen to decentralise biodiesel production based on jatropha, in 54 micro-sized plants, spread across the country. "Initially, the government was planning to build eight big biofuel plants, but later we decided to build much smaller plants with a capacity of 300 tonnes per year each" says Effendi Sirait, the industry ministry's official in charge of biofuel development. The reasons for this change in strategy are unclear.
- 2 state-owned companies, PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia and PT Perkebunan Nusantara III, are building ethanol plants, using sugar cane, and biodiesel plants, using palm oil
- 15 private companies are building biodiesel plants, using palm oil. Total capacity: 1 million tonnes (20,000 bpd). Amongst those are Indonesian companies PT Bakrie Sumatra Plantations Tbk, PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk and PT Asian Agri; foreign companies such as Golden Hope Plantations, Genting Bhd and Sime Darby Bhd (all Malaysian), and Singapore's Wilmar Holding Pte Ltd.
- several other companies are building biodiesel plants outside Indonesia (notably in Singapore and Malaysia), but will rely on raw materials produced in the island state. Amongst them CMS Resources Pte Ltd, which is building two 200,000 tonnes per year biodiesel plants in Singapore. The aim is to export about 90% of its product to Europe and Japan, but the company will consider opportunities to export to China. The balance will be for Singapore.
- 10 private companies are building ethanol plants, with cassava and sugar cane as feedstocks. Total production capacity: 170 million liters per year.
ethanol :: biodiesel :: biomass :: bioenergy :: biofuels :: energy :: sustainability :: palm oil :: sugar cane :: cassava :: jatropha :: Indonesia ::
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