- Through the issuance of Regulation No. 3 of 2022 on New Electricity Installation Assistance for Underprivileged Households ("Regulation"), the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources will now provide New Electricity Installation Assistance (Bantuan Pasang Baru Listrik – "BPBL") to households that have yet to register as customers of PT PLN (Persero) ("PLN") and that are domiciled in areas that already have available low-voltage electrical networks provided by PLN.
- Prospective BPBL recipients must also fulfill the following requirements prior to receiving the BPBL: 1) Register with the Integrated Social Welfare Data (Data Terpadu Kesejahteraan Sosial) system; 2) Domiciled within frontier regions (daerah tertinggal, terdepan dan terluar); and/or 3) Assistance must be based on validations that are provided by the relevant village heads (lurah/kepala desa). Said validations should state that prospective recipients are worthy of receiving BPBL.
- Procurements and installations relating to BPBL should be carried out by PLN through the following activities: 1) Establishment of electrical power installations; 2) Inspection and testing of electrical installations; 3) New electrical connections; and 4) Top-ups of initial electrical tokens. The aforementioned new electrical connections must be made in locations that already have electrical installations and SLO installed in accordance with BPBL planning.
- Free-of-charge BPBL assistance can only be granted once to a given BPBL recipient. Moreover, recipients will then have to assume responsibility for the maintenance of any provided electrical installations and will also be prohibited from selling and/or transferring their electrical installations to any other parties.
- The Regulation has been in force since 21 January 2022.
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