Indonesia welcomes bids for solar and bioenergy projects

• Indonesian state power business Perusahaan Listrikk Negara (PLN) has invited proposals from designers for solar as well as bioenergy projects.

To satisfy the pre-qualification criteria for signing up with the bidding process, interested bidders ought to be from Indonesia or any nation with diplomatic connections with Indonesia. They will need to submit 3 years of monetary declarations, and a financial credit scores score report from D&B, S&P, Moody's or Fitch.

In addition, prospective buyers must have successfully performed at least one independent project; design, purchase, as well as building and construction (EPC) contract; or an operation & maintenance (O&M) agreement in last 10 years. The project ought to have been in successful operation for at least one year.

Proposals must be sent through the PLN electronic purchase website. Interested bidders will need to pay an enrollment quantity of Rp 2.5 million (US$ 176m) to join the tender. There is no target date for submitting bids as well as PLN will routinely perform the assessment procedure.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in November authorized a US$ 600m financing for PLN to increase electricity access in eastern Indonesia. The Indonesian government is targeting a 23% brand-new as well as renewable energy mix for 2025, and requires an additional 10 gigawatts (GW) renewable energy to meet this target.

Toby Evans of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law, said, "Indonesia has actually established enthusiastic renewable resource generation targets over the coming years and also PLN has an important part to play in achieving these. It is necessary that potential project developers recognize PLN's purchase processes and policies, consisting of pre-qualification. While we have in the past noted specific concerns around the pre-qualification process, consisting of hold-ups and a lack of openness as well as certainty, it is definitely an exciting time to be involved in Indonesian renewable resource as well as developers will be interested in the chances offered by this expanding field."