State electricity company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) aims to slash its fuel consumption by 21 percent to 5.7 million kiloliters in 2015 from 7.2 million kiloliters in 2014.

“In 2015, fuel consumption will decline to 5.7 million kiloliters,” Chief of PLNs Fuel Oil and Gas Division, Suryadi Mardjoeki, said here on Thursday.

Fuel consumption will decline by some 1.5 million kiloliters this year, after PLNs generators in the North Sumatra provincial capital of Medan switched to using gas, he explained.