The Silkyara tunnel is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s infrastructure project aimed at cutting travel times between some of the most popular Hindu temples in the country. The 4.5km passage is meant to connect Uttarkashi and Yamunotri, two of the holiest sites. For Modi, leader of the Hindu-nationalist BharatiyaContinue Reading
NHAI officials along with others from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will inspect ongoing tunnel projects and submit a report in seven days, it added. These would include 12 tunnels in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, six in the Jammu and Kashmir region, and the rest in other statesContinue Reading
On Sunday, Delhi’s Environment Minister Gopal Rai told reporters that construction work on public infrastructure projects could resume, although with curbs on activities that blow dust through the air. Those remarks followed Saturday’s revocation of emergency measures ordered on Nov 5 to keep air quality from worsening, including a banContinue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO: The United States on Thursday (Nov 16) signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with the Philippines, clearing a path for US investment to jump-start atomic power in a country racing to expand its electricity supply. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who has become a close US ally in his moreContinue Reading
HANOI: The ancient Vietnamese city of Hue, a world heritage site popular with tourists, was underwater on Wednesday (Nov 15) after heavy rain flooded thousands of homes and blocked highways. Pictures on state media showed residents navigating flooded streets in boats, while homes and cars were partially submerged. “The cityContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, November 8, the capital of India, New Delhi, closed all schools for an extended period in response to dangerous heat excellent levels. This was the most recent step in a long line of defenses against rising air pollution. Although it was not as awful as theContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: According to Malaysia’s environment ministry, a proposed bill to stop transborder cloud pollutants will not be implemented because it will be difficult to gather the data required for legal action. In Indonesia, smoke from fires to clear land for hand oil and pulp and paper crops blankets muchContinue Reading
BEIJING: After summer, temperatures in northern China are expected to drop by up to 20 degrees Celsius, extending a year-long trend of unusual weather swings, according to state forecasters on Friday( Nov 3 ). According to the National Meteorological Administration( CMA ), a stream of cold air that will enterContinue Reading
JAKARTA: Indonesia President Joko Widodo on Thursday (Nov 2) said the government will push for the development of a domestic seaweed processing industry, including for the production of fuel. Speaking at a business conference, Jokowi, as the president is known, said he will implement downstream policy for other commodities afterContinue Reading
Indonesia is one of the top geothermal energy producers in the world, with more than 300 sites.
On the slopes of Mount Guntur, an active stratovolcano in the West Java province, for instance, geothermal energy is harnessed from the Kamojang crater.
Geothermal exploration began in Kamojang in 1926, and the first geothermal well was drilled there during the Dutch colonial era.
After nearly 100 years, the well is still emitting steam continuously at a high pressure today.
The Kamojang geothermal power field, the first in Indonesia, is managed by Pertamina Geothermal Energy.
“The advantage of a geothermal system is that it can operate 24 hours, seven days a week,” said Mr Hanifah Bagus Sulistyardi, operations manager at Pertamina Geothermal Energy (Kamojang).
“The energy supply is not intermittent, compared with solar. The solar energy power plant can only operate a certain number of hours per day, and it cannot operate at night.”