Nowadays, North Sumatera suffers electricity shortages that disturb its development and industrialized. A palm
biomass power plant is a promising solution to overcome that the electricity shortage in due to North Sumatera has
many palm oil industries. Some small POM capacity in one area of regency can supply their biomass waste to the
power plant. The power plant employs cogeneration with proper and better unit specification to generate high
electricity. This concept is called clustering energy. However, it requires a large investment but many advantages
obtained, such as revenue, lower milling cost, environmental risk and support national electricity.