Tepat jam 11.15 siang pertengahan bulan Juni, kereta yang membawa saya dari Berlin tiba di Stasiun Nadrazi Holesovice. Empat setengah jam perjalanan dari Berlin tak terasa melelahkan, apalagi mata cukup terhibur dengan pemandangan perbukitan dan sungai nan indah khas Eropa.
Lagi-lagi kebab. Wah tak tahu saya, sudah berapa kebab yang saya makan selama saya disini, dan sudah berapa pula warung kebab yang saya datangi. Kebab memang makanan khas Timur Tengah. Kebetulan karena Berlin merupakan kota dengan jumlah orang Turki terbanyak kedua di dunia, jadilah kebab bertebaran di hampir seluruh pelosok Berlin.
Selain harganya yang cukup terjangkau bagi kantong Melayu seperti saya, yang terutama adalah kebab menggunakan daging sapi atau daging domba, yang notabene di Jerman banyak sekali bertebaran daging babi yang diharamkan bagi orang Muslim.
Ada yang lucu ketika saya membeli kebab di dekat tempat saya belajar. Berhubung yang menjual adalah orang tua, jadinya harga yang dikenakan tergantung mood orang tua tersebut, kadang satu kebab bisa terkena 2,20 Euro, kadang bisa 2,60 Euro, yah tinggallah kita yang menggerutu, hahahaahaha…
Meski begitu menurut saya, kebab terbaik yang pernah saya rasakan adalah kebab di tempat itu, dan satu lagi kebab di Check Point Charlie, rasanya cukup pas, asinnya juga. Tob markotob daaaaaah…Yah, inilah seluk beluk kebab di negaranya Angela Markel.
Berlin. Germany is on track to achieve the target of producing 25 per cent of its total energy requirement through wind power by erecting more energy parks in days to come.
Ulf Winkler, Director of Umweltplan, a wind park developing company told reporters here on Wednesday (04/30) that Germany is one of the world’s largest wind-power producing country, as currently it has 18,685 wind energy plants that have the capacity of 20,622MW electricity.
Umweltplan was currently operating a plant of five wind-mills at Ladeburg, Berneu, which has the installed capacity of 5MW.
According to him, the first time investment cost for one wind plant could be around one million euro and usually its life span last for 20 years.
He said besides having benefit for the overall ecology, the execution of wind energy plant is comparatively easier than other means of producing powers. For example, he explained, the wind power plants in Ladeburg Wind Park, Berneu took only a few weeks for the construction. He, however, informed that fulfilment of procedures takes usually two to three years in Germany.
Referring to the production of Ladeburg wind park, he said it produces 5 million kwh per year. The park has five wind-plants having 78 meter height and 20 meter length of blades. Each of the plants has a capacity from 0,6 MW to 1,5 MW which cover for almost 300 households. With the cost production for 7 cent/kwh, the operator of the plants receive 8 cent/kwh and the consumer of the household have to pay 20 cent/kwh. Enercon, the German company, produces the power plants, and Umweltplan does the maintenance. “It will cost you 5.000 Euro per year for the maintenance,” said Winkler.
He further said wind plant can best be erected in places of high altitude like hills, or offshore-sea. That is why cost of the project goes up, in case of hilly areas or offshore.
It is pertinent to mention here that Indonesia, being a fast growing economy, has many advantages to build wind energy parks especially in the Eastern Area. The country, having a population of 220 million, has many potential areas in the eastern such as NTB, Southern Sulawesi, and Papua. A major portion of this densely populated country does not have electricity.
The biggest problem, which can create hurdles in introducing this new technology in Indonesia is high cost of its installation. The government has to invest around one million euro equal to Rp 14,5 billion for erecting a wind plant.
By : Agung Ardyatmo (Posted : May 1st. 2008)
