The project site is located at Industri Tenayan Sub-District (formerly known as Sail Sub-District), Pekanbaru City, Riau Province, Indonesia approximately 10km due east of Pekanbaru City near the Siak River. The gas pipeline will be subsurface and follows the existing road from TGI Pipeline Transmission Corridor. The project is located 2 kilometers south of PLN’s existing 2 x 110 MW Tenayan Coal Fired Power Station (CFPP). Pekanbaru has a tropical climate and the project will be approximately 25 meters above mean sea level.

The proposed 275 MW combined cycle gas power plant is a Category A project as it has significant environmental and social risks and impacts due to: (a) the 40 km long gas pipeline for the project that passes through a modified critical habitat and habitat used by critically endangered, endangered and other threatened species; (b) legacy claims of  Batin Tenayan may be impacted by the project; (c) the gas pipeline and temporary jetty that may impact communities of indigenous people (IP); (d) the gas pipeline impacts in about 148 structures including about 54 residential structures, parts of which will be removed during construction  and about 33 structures that will have to be permanently relocated; and similar impacts along certain sections of the water pipeline (e) the cumulative impacts on air quality and river water quality, with potential for impact on livelihood of fishing communities, from the air emissions and thermal discharge of PLN’s 220 MW Tenayan coal based power plant; (f) the increase in the risk exposure of communities resident within the potential impact zone of the gas pipeline; and (g) other impacts related to construction and operation of such projects including those related to emissions to air, water and soil, management of hazardous materials and wastes, occupational health, safety and working condition of employees and contract workers, community health, safety and security, and livelihood impact on workers employed in the existing oil palm plantation at the project site.