Install solar panels, when can you transform the capital?

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – ESDM's Director General for New and Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation (EBTKE), Rida Mulyana, predicts that PLN customers installing solar power plants (PLTS) at home will be able to return their capital for 12 years .

Solar roof electricity entering the PLN (export) network accounts for 65% of the PLN electricity tariff.

"For example, 65% refund the period is 12 years old, "Rida told Jakarta on Wednesday (28/11/2018).

Rida added that if the electricity exported was valued at the same price as the electricity tariff, the calculation of the time needed to return the capital was not very different.

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"If yes refund1 to 1 refund periodit is 11 years 6 months. What is exported to PLN, 65%, why? That the supply of electricity includes the same transport facility. The period of use by the customer of the transmission does not pay PLN. It's like saving (electricity), "said Rida.

At the same time, EBTKE Harris, General Manager of the ESDM for New and Renewable Energy at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, added that his investment in the PLTS Roof facility was US $ 1. per watt peak.

According to him, the total electricity produced is generally consumed by customers up to 90%. In other words, only 10% will be exported to the PLN.

On this basis, he badessed that new customers could return their capital for 12 years after installation.

"There is a simple account, with the case where 10% is exported and then refund returnif it is 10% if the conversion is 0.65 (65%) refund"He is 12," said Harris.