Jakarta – The government is accelerating the expansion of national electricity access through the construction of Solar Power Plants (PLTS) as the primary solution for 5,600 villages that have yet to enjoy electricity.
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia, in an official statement at the inauguration of the operation and construction of renewable energy projects in 15 provinces held in Bondowoso, East Java, Thursday, 26 June, affirmed that within the next four to five years, all villages without electricity will be prioritised to receive energy connections through PLTS.
“We will install electricity in villages without electricity through PLTS, a collaboration between the private sector, PLN, and the government,” Mr Bahlil said. According to him, the prioritised areas are those that have been difficult to reach by conventional electricity networks.
According to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, as of mid-2025, 47 PLTS units have been built in 47 villages across 11 provinces. These projects reached 47,383 households who are now enjoying electricity for the first time. The total capacity of all plants reaches 27.8 megawatts (MW), consisting of 46 off-grid PLTS and one on-grid PLTS unit that is directly connected to the PLN network.
The government targets the development of PLTS to continue at a massive scale in the next five years as a concrete effort to achieve the national electrification target of 100 per cent. (Hartatik)
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