Palm Oil-Based Energy Development Accelerated

“This year, CPO absorption reached 6.2 million tons. With the addition of around 1 million tons for export, there is a new market of around 7 million tons of palm oil. If the B30 program runs, there will be additional absorption of 3 million tons,” said the President Director of the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (BPDP-KS), Dono Boestami, in an event attended by InfoSAWIT recently in Jakarta.

Meanwhile, for renewable energy development in the form of Green Diesel, it has been carried out in the laboratory on a small scale with the pilot scale to be carried out in Dumai and Plaju Refineries. After that, if it becomes commercial, it will be carried out in Balongan and Cilacap Refineries.

With Green Diesel production, the national diesel demand is expected to be met at around 20 to 25 million kiloliters. “If it is up and running, it means the domestic demand has been met and the good thing is that this program is beneficial for the people and does not disrupt business people,” he said.

In addition to supporting the development of biofuel, the downstream sector development supported by the BPDP-KS also includes the development of the oleochemical industry, and biofuel for the needs of the State Electricity Company (PLN).

For your information, national CPO production is projected to continue increasing, with BPDP-KS records, CPO and its derivative production in 2017 in the number of 42 million tons, this number continued to rise in 2018 which reached 47.4 million tons. (T2)

Source: InfoSawit.com