PLN President Director Reveals Electric Vehicle Ecosystem Readiness to Jokowi

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) visited the PT PLN (Persero) booth during the Periklindo Electric Vehicle Exhibition (PEVS) 2024, at JIExpo Kemayoran (3/05).

Greeting the President directly, PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo also expressed the PLN's willingness to support the development of the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem in the country.

The President said the PEVS electric vehicle exhibition could increase public interest in electric vehicles. He believes that Indonesia's electric vehicle industry has great potential and will continue to grow in the future.

“This Electric Vehicle Exhibition (PEVS) is very interesting. I saw that there are many types of vehicles, from motorcycles to cars, buses and trucks. For example, for vehicles electric motorized, our production capacity is 1.6 million per year.” Currently, only about 100,000 have been produced here, which shows that there is still a great opportunity for further development,” Jokowi said.

Apart from this, Jokowi stressed the importance of developing supporting industries to support the electric vehicle ecosystem. The President stressed that the immediate objective is the construction of a battery factory.

“Next month, the battery industry factory will start production. So we hope that this ecosystem will be built soon, will be formed soon. And we are also happy that now 59 factories are producing electric motorcycles here. This great ecosystem of electric vehicles really needs to be built. “We will ensure that there are no obstacles,” Jokowi added.

PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo responded that the PLN fully supports the government's steps to build an electric vehicle ecosystem. In this case, PLN started to develop electric vehicle infrastructure, including providing charging station distributed in various regions.

There are currently 1,370 public electric vehicle charging stations (SPKLU), 9,886 public electric charging stations (SPLU) and 2,182 public electric battery exchange stations (SPBKLU).

“PLN is also innovating to develop 2,000 SPKLU units on pole-mounted electric poles spread across Indonesia,” Darmawan said.

Apart from that, Darmawan also explained the non-physical infrastructure developed by PLN. In this case, PLN presents the EV Digital Services (EVDS) functionality in the PLN Mobile Super Apps.

With this feature, PLN makes it easier for EV users to know where they are charging station nearest, service road testrequest installation of the service home charging, walk buy an EV, organize long-distance travel plans.

Menu Travel planner This will automatically provide recommendations for SPKLU points to spend based on the travel route. The increasingly massive support of the EV ecosystem is reflected in the period of homecoming and return flow during the Eid 1445 H holiday.

Previously, SPKLU was only available on a few rest area on the Trans Sumatra-Java route. Currently, PLN insures everything rest area SPKLU is available.

“People's interest in using electric vehicles is increasing. Therefore, PLN responds to this need by providing SPKLU facilities at every strategic point and along the entire route. rest area toll on the return road. “The high level of public interest is reflected in the increasing number of SPKLU transactions and electricity consumption,” Darmawan concluded.

It was recorded that from D-7 to D+7 of Idul Fitri in 2024, the number of transactions at SPKLU reached 11,377 transactions, a 5-fold increase compared to 2023, i.e. 2,275 transactions with actual electricity consumption reaching 226.5 Mega Watt-hour (MWh). ), an increase of 5.2 times compared to 2023 of 43.5 MWh.

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