Govt woos Tesla with green power

Jakarta(Jakarta Post/ANN)-The government is promoting industrial estates supplied with electricity from renewable sources as it hopes to attract foreign direct investment by multinational firms conscious of their carbon footprint. Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said on Thursday that the government had proposed to Tesla to build a factory in Batang, East Java, with an annual capacity of roughly 500,000 electric vehicles (EVs). The government considers the place suitable because it is near geothermal power sources estimated sufficient to supply 400 megawatts of generating capacity. State-owned Geo Dipa Energi runs geothermal power facilities in the region.