PALMOILMAGAZINE, LAOS – PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) IV Subholding (PalmCo) has once again achieved international recognition by winning the 2024 ASEAN Energy Awards (AEA). The award, presented by the ASEAN Center for Energy (ACE), acknowledges the company’s commitment to utilizing renewable energy through the processing of palm oil mill effluent (POME).
PalmCo’s Director, Jatmiko Santosa, received the award in Vientiane, Laos, on Friday, September 27, 2024. PTPN IV Regional Head for Region III, Rurianto, also attended the ceremony. The award was part of the 42nd ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM) and the 24th ASEAN Energy Business Forum (AEBF).
PalmCo secured first place in the ASEAN Renewable Energy Project Awards category for its Palm Oil Mill Biogas Cofiring project in Sei Tapung, Kampar Regency, Riau Province. The project generates up to 25 million kilocalories of energy annually and offsets 18.5 thousand tons of CO2 equivalent per year. The energy produced is used to power boilers at the Sei Tapung mill, significantly reducing diesel fuel consumption.
“We are proud of the award. It would be the acknowledgement on our consistency to take advantages on renewable energy. This would be the spirit to keep expanding environmental energy, as same as the company’s transformation and the national scale vision, heading to net zero emission,” Jatmiko said, as in the official statement, as Palmoilmagazine.com quoted, Monday (30/9/2024).
In a whole, PalmCo operated eight new renewable energy facilities – seven of them optimally operated. The company totally produced 5,3 megawatt – power plants and 64,7 million kilo calory per year. The facilities could absorb almost up to 150 thousand tons carbon per year, as part of the company to support the target of the Government of Indonesia to realize net zero emission in 2060.
Jatmiko continued that PalmCo planned to multiply the other 29 new renewable energy facilities until 2030. It would be in cooperation with the domestic and international scale – partners. One project to go is to constructe sustainable aviation fuel in cooperation with reNikola, Malaysia.
ASEAN Energy Awards is the highest award in Southeast Asia. It was conducted by ASEAN Center for Energy since 2000. It was about to promote renewable energy advantage and efficiency in ASEAN region. The 2024 award would be the third time for PTPN IV PalmCo after it got the same in 2023 and 2014. (P2)
