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Indonesia has the largest geothermal potential in the world, recently Indonesia only utilizes 7% of their geothermal to generate electricity. To increase the electricity production, the development of new geothermal power plant is needed, also the optimization of existing geothermal power plant. There are several types of geothermal powerplant system, depends on steam condition and utilization. This paper aimed to analyze the heat loss occurred in geothermal powerplant system X, also compare the cooling system between direct contact condenser (DCC) and indirect contact condenser (ICC). The comparison study has been simulated by using ASPEN HYSIS software. The method used to analyze the heat loss was by calculating exergy in each stream, so that we can calculate the exergy destruction at each process equipment. The result shows that the turbine produced 60 MW of electricity and largest heat loss occur on cooling tower with percentage about 17.64% for ICC system and 18.41% for DCC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]