PT Halmahera Persada Lygend Nickel Smelter power station is a 2,390 MW coal power station in North Maluku, Indonesia. It is operated by PT Obi Nickel Cobalt [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3.0 million homes (estimated). It ranks #11 of 401 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2020, it is around 6 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% of Indonesia's electricity; the national grid averages 680 gCO₂/kWh (18.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_pthalmaherapersadaly_indon.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 1,630 MW for PT Halmahera Persada Lygend Nickel Smelt, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 2,390 MW, PT Halmahera Persada Lygend Nickel Smelter power station is well above the median coal plant in Indonesia (220 MW). Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PT Obi Nickel Cobalt [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 1.6°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #8 largest coal power plant of 191 in Indonesia by capacity.
Indonesia has 191 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 101,995 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -1.5614331, 127.4210337 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
PT Halmahera Persada Lygend Nickel Smelter power station is a 2,390 MW coal power plant in North Maluku, Indonesia, commissioned in 2020.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 2,990,914 homes (estimated).
PT Halmahera Persada Lygend Nickel Smelter power station is operated by PT Obi Nickel Cobalt [100%].
