Indonesia Plans to Step Up Use of New Renewable Energy

• Apr 11, 2017

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The government is planning to increase the use of new renewable energy for electricity by 2025. The Electricity Provision Business Plan (RUPTL) 2017-2026 signed in March says that the uptake of new renewable energy will be increased from 19.6 percent to 22.6 percent by 2025.

The government will optimize local energy sources to generate electricity in the same region. The government will also find a more efficient generating technology to reduce the basic cost of electricity supply.

The Energy and Mineral Resources Ignasius Jonan said that revisions to RUPTL will depend on external factors. “If there are any changes, such as economic growth, which is an extraordinary monetary change, [RUPTL] will be revised accordingly,” Jonan said in Jakarta yesterday.

Meanwhile, coal energy consumption is expected to reach 50 percent of the entire primary energy source by 2025. The natural gas energy consumption is expected to reach 26 percent and that of crude oil to reach less than 0.5 percent by 2025.

The government also plans to operate power stations with a total capacity of 125 gigawatts (GW), or 125,000 megawatts (MW). Seventy GW of electricity is expected to be installed by 2019.

State-owned electricity company PT PLN (Persero) will also develop mine-mouth coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 7,300 MW. As many as 1,600 MW of which will be generated from mine-mouth power plants in Kalimantan, while the remaining power plants will be built in Sumatra. PLN expects to develop power plants with a capacity of 77 GW by 2025 along with 67,422 transmission lines and 164,170 MVA of substation capacity.

The target is below that of set in the RUPTL. PLN lowered the target in the Java-Bali system from 41,800 MW to 39,100 MW and eastern Indonesia system from 12,730 MW to 17,720 MW. Meanwhile, the Sumatra system is increased from 20,400 MW to 21,000 MW.

Jonan has asked the PLN to prioritize the development of mine-mouth coal-fired power plants and gas-fired power plants at the mouth of the well. He stressed that development should correspond with local energy availability.

Source: https://en.tempo.co/read/news/2017/04/11/056864664/Indonesia-Plans-to-Step-Up-Use-of-New-Renewable-Energy