PLN to cover 70% of West Kalimantan's power needs

PLN is targeting to provide electricity for 70 percent of residents in West Kalimantan province by the end of 2012.

"Up to March this year, we have covered 66.86 percent. We still need a lot of hard work to reach the target," PLN Manager for technical affairs of West Kalimantan Andreas Heru Sumaryanto said here over the weekend.

Based on the West Kalimantan PLN office, there are eight regions in the province whose electricity coverage is still less than 60 percent.

The regions or districts where electricity coverage is still low are Melawi with a power coverage of 50.65 percent, Sekadau with 50.81 percent, Sintang with 50.89 percent, Kayong Utara with 51.97 and Kapuas Hulu with 51.62 percent.

The other districts are Senggau with 56.56 electricity coverage, Ketapang with 58.59 percent and Landak with 58.08 percent.

He said that there were also a number of regions which had the potentials to be covered with electricity soon. But some of them still need hard work by the PLN officials because PLN still lacked power generators for the regions.

"We should not give in, but optimize our efforts," he added.

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