Bali has announced a date that until now had only been mentioned in broad promises: on 8 July 2026, the authorities plan to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a waste-to-energy facility. Bali Governor Wayan Koster said this on 23 April.
This refers to the PSEL Denpasar Raya project — a facility intended primarily to serve Denpasar and Badung. A few days earlier, the authorities had already signed agreements for the project.
The site has already been chosen: a 6-hectare plot in the Benoa Port area, on Pelindo land. Construction will take 15 months; the facility is expected to be completed by early November 2027, with commissioning scheduled for December 2027.
The project is designed to handle at least 1,200 tonnes of waste per day: about 700 tonnes from Denpasar and 500 tonnes from Badung.
After restrictions on waste intake at the Suwung landfill, the island is trying to urgently overhaul the system: launch local processing facilities, expand sorting, and gradually move away from the old model of open dumping.
The Ministry of the Environment has separately stressed that the future waste-to-energy plant will only be able to operate with properly sorted waste.
By the end of July, the authorities want to complete the rollout of local processing sites in Denpasar and Badung so that organic waste no longer goes to Suwung, and the future energy facility receives a more suitable waste stream.
Source: bali.antaranews.com
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