Potential Analysis of Ex-Coal Mining Land As Pumped Storage Hydro Powerplant In Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan

¹ Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
² PT. ASI Pudjiastuti Geosurvey, Jakarta Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: yollandazd@gmail.com

Abstract

The growth of electricity demand will increase 56.8% in 10 years. Meanwhile, the fulfillment of electricity in Indonesia is dominated by coal. The amount of electricity growth has not balanced yet by the amount of electricity supply. It causes the electricity deficit in some areas, especially at the peak load period. One of the areas that often have electrical power deficit is East Kalimantan, although the province is one of the biggest coal mining areas in Indonesia. The mining activities give several impacts in environmental damages especially in the ex-coal mining land which has not been well managed. The impact includes an irreversible change of landscape and huge craters caused by open mining activities. In this study, an analysis is conducted for utilization of ex-coal mining land in Kutai Kartanegara as a reservoir of energy storage system type Pumped Hydroelectric Storage (PSH). The analysis provides a comparison of three variations of the piping line system. The study uses the spatial data in the form of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to calculate the time of starting operation system, expected generated energy, required energy for power plant operation and the efficiency of the system. This study compares some criteria based on three variations of the piping line system and the effect on the efficiency of the system.