STORY: Indonesia inaugurates Southeast Asia's largest floating solar plant
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 9, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 10, 2023
LENGTH: 0:02:24
LOCATION: WEST JAVA, Indonesia
CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of ceremony
2. various of stock footage of project
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHOU JIAYI, Vice President Director of PowerChina International Group Ltd.
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): DIMAS, Operation Director of Cirata floating solar PV project
3. various of floating solar plant

STORYLINE:

Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday inaugurated Southeast Asia's largest floating solar plant, which occupies an area of 250 hectares above the Cirata Reservoir in West Java Province. 
"Today is a historical day because our big dream of building a large-scale renewable energy plant is finally achieved. We managed to build the largest floating solar plant in Southeast Asia, and the third biggest in the world," Widodo said at the on-grid ceremony.

Constructed by China's PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation Ltd., the power plant was a collaboration project between Indonesia's state electricity corporation PLN and the United Arab Emirates energy company Masdar, with an investment of 145 million U.S. dollars.

Spread over the reservoir surface with more than 340,000 solar panels, the 192-megawatt-peak capacity power plant can produce 300 million kilowatt-hours of energy annually, complementing the hydropower generation available in the reservoir.

Widodo also encouraged using renewable energy potential to support the country's efforts to reduce carbon emissions and pursue the target of net-zero emissions by 2060.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHOU JIAYI, Vice President Director of PowerChina International Group Ltd.
"With the completion of this project, it should be able to provide green electricity for 50,000 households in Indonesia, contributing greatly to Indonesia's green development. Through this project, we have provided a total of 8,000 jobs for local people, and we have also provided them with skill training."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): DIMAS, Operation Director of Cirata floating solar PV project
"Cirata floating PV is a very important project for us as PLN, or national state electricity company, but also for Indonesia as a whole. Because right now we have a plan to be able to achieve net-zero energy from fossil fuels in 2060. And this project will become a mark of the beginning of our transition because this is the first floating large-scale solar PV (project) and also the most price competitive compared with fossil fuel."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from West Java, Indonesia.
(XHTV)