Civil works for micro hydro project covers several works
such as site preparation, construction of intake, canal race,
penstock, foundation of power house, and building for power
house. There is no standard cost for each of this work
component as the nature of this construction is very site or
location specific. Each location will require its own cost due to
its topology, geographical and access. Several micro hydro
projects have been developed in various location in Indonesia.
This empirical or historical data is used to estimate cost
elements of the proposed power plant. Data on size of building
and other components of existing micro hydro are used to
interpolate the civil works cost of the proposed plant. With this
approach and based on data described in [7] yields total cost for
civil works of the proposed plant is around IDR 407.5 million