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The efficiency of PLN Living Berharapkan Coal

Jakarta (ANTARA) - PT PLN (Persero) is now live berharapkan fuel utilization efficiency of coal in 2010, following a lack of gas.

"Gas is hopeless. Now living hope in the coal," said Dahlan Iskan PLN President Director in Jakarta, Tuesday.

According to him, a number of coal utilization efficiency efforts that can be done is to get the price of coal is lower than the market price.

He Letting, this time, the coal price 74 U.S. dollars per ton.

"If it could be 55 dollars, then it is very good," he said.

Other efforts, continued Dahlan, through policies such as banning exports of low-calorie coal.

For example, the government could ban the export coal with calorific below 5000 kcal / kg.

PLN, he added, will conduct joint operations with the owner of mining rights (KP) who did not walk.

"There are thousands of current KP is in no way," he said.

Dahlan said the supply of gas for new power plants will be resolved by the end of 2011 after operation of liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG) floating in the sea north of Jakarta.