Cirata Tour
In addition to attending the World Hydropower Congress, we're also offering the opportunity for attendees to buy a ticket to a tour of the Cirata hydropower project.
This tour will cost USD 315 per person plus 11% VAT. This includes a return flight from Bali- Bandung, one-night at a hotel, transport from hotels to the airport.
This tour will be of the largest hydropower plant in Indonesia, Cirata. The HPP is sourced by the Ciratum river in West Java, around 60km northwest of Bandung. Cirata HPP comprises 8 units of power plants with a total installed capacity of 1,008 MW, with an average electricity production of 1,428 GWh per year.
The tour will also include a site visit of the 145 MW Cirata floating solar photovoltaic (PV) project, currently under construction. It will be the second largest floating solar PV plant in the world when completed. The project is being built on a 225 ha section of the Cirata Reservoir and it will be integrated into the Java-Bali grid which is the backbone of Indonesia’s electricity supply providing power to more than half of the nation’s population.
The Cirata floating solar power plant is expected to generate 245million kWh of electricity per year to power 50,000 households. Thanks to the location of the floating PV installation in the Cirata Reservoir and complementarity with the existing hydropower plant, variability can be minimised. This highlights the key role hydropower can play in accommodating the rising share of variable renewables.