PLTBg investment analysis from agricultural organic waste to produce electrical energy: preliminary potential analysis study and investment in the Caringin Main Market, Bandung

Biogas is a product of the decomposition of organic matter by microbial decomposers under anaerobic conditions. Biogas consists of various gases, especially methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, H 2 S and other gases as impurities. Biogas can be converted into fuel or electrical energy. One of the potential biogas raw materials is agricultural organic waste. This article and study are based on a survey of the potential for agricultural organic waste produced by the Caringin Main Market. Bandung and the amount of organic waste production reached 84 tons/day, resulting from the trading process in the market. The waste produced by the market is suitable to be used as biogas with an organic content of more than 97.7%; the remaining 2.3% is inorganic waste. Based on the economic and financial analysis, the NPV value was 356,487,559,415.34 and the IRR was 23%, which means it was higher than the interest rate set by the bank, while the PBP value was 5.8 years, much lower set by investors for 10 years and Profitable Index of 4,2 so that this project is declared economically and financially feasible.