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Kobold II Plant in Indonesia
This project had the goal to install a floating vertical-axis turbine in Lombok Strait, Indonesia, as a first step towards achieving community electrification for Lombok. Additionally, the project was meant to demonstrate the second generation of the Kobold turbine (hence the name Kobold II) at a maximum rated power of 150 kW. In 2009, the production of the platform and turbine started with Kobold Nusa contracting Javasea. Over the following year, a 30-ton platform and shaft was produced in Jakarta. When it was found impractical to deliver it by sea to Lombok it was cut in three pieces and delivered by truck in 2010. Several parts of the turbine were manufactured in Italy.
However, in Lombok, the work on the infrastructure that would be used to channel power from the Kobold turbine had not progressed to the point where the turbine could have been connected. The local government had budgeted funds (around 30,000 USD) for an underwater cable in 2009, but without further external support, was not able to conduct the tender for its procurement and installation and so the money was reallocated to other uses. In 2009, the research ministry RISTEK was able to allocate some funds that were spent on a mini-grid in the host community but the turbine was not installed.
The project was officially cancelled in 2014 and an independent evaluation of the project was presented in a report by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
- Planned: Project has identified a deployment location and is preparing for deployment
- Operational: Project is deployed in the water and is active
- Completed: Project was previously deployed in the water
- Decommissioned: Installation has been fully removed in accordance with regulations
- Canceled: Project was canceled before being deployed in the water
- Tidal
- Open Ocean: Main body of ocean, not enclosed or partially enclosed by land
- Coastal: Open water near the coast, spanning between land and shelf boundary
- Enclosed Bay: water that is partially surrounded by land, with a mouth open to larger water
- Constricted Channel: A channel where water flows quickly due to narrowing by the land
- River: Water flowing from land towards a larger body of water
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