Jokowi Invites Australia to Develop Renewable Energy
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has invited Australia to cooperate in developing renewable energy and work hand-in-hand in conserving the environment. “We must work hand-in-hand to conserve nature, implement sustainable development, reforestation (barren land) and the upper reaches of rivers, prevent land and forest fires, commit ourselves to reduce carbon emissions, and develop renewable energy and […]
Indonesia to stop gas exports to Singapore in 2023
The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has decided to stop gas shipments to Singapore in the next three years to cater to domestic demand. “Gas exports to Singapore will stop in 2023 and we will use the gas for the domestic market,” Downstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BPH Migas) head Fanshurullah Asa said as quoted from the ministry’s press […]
Indonesia expects 8.8 GW of power projects to come online in 2020
JAKARTA, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Indonesia expects an additional 8,823 megawatts (MW) of electricity capacity to come online in 2020 as part of a plan to add 35 gigawatts (GW) of capacity, Rida Mulyana, the energy ministry’s Director General of Electricity told parliament on Wednesday. It would be the biggest capacity rise within a year […]
Rekind Completed Phase One of Muara Laboh PLTP Project
PT Rekayasa Industri (Rekind) again showed its best performance at the end of 2019. JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The National EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning) company has completed the Muara Laboh Phase One Geothermal Power Project (PLTP) located in Solok Selatan Regency, West Sumatra. This was marked by the announcement of the commercial operation of the […]
Indonesia to issue feed-in tariffs to boost renewable energy sector
JAKARTA: Indonesia plans to issue a presidential regulation on a feed-in tariff system in a bid to boost investment in its renewable energy sector. The feed-in tariffs will be divided into two stages. The first will offer renewable power plant developers a fixed electricity price for 12 years. At the second stage, and on the […]
New geothermal feed-in-tariffs for Indonesia expected in the coming months
News from Indonesia report on ongoing work on a presidential regulation (Perpres) regarding the price of electricity from renewable energy power plants and plans to announce those within the first six months of this year. The price of renewable energy electricity will be arranged in stages to accelerate the return on project investment. This regulation […]
To combat Asia’s energy battle, Indonesia needs to sign new renewable energy contract: Report
Indonesia needs to sign a new renewable energy contract in the next three years to counter its massive demographic shift, according to a report in ‘Indonesia Clean Energy Outlook’. The country is Southeast Asia’s largest economy and democracy and is rapidly approaching a demographic shift in the next ten years. Experts claim that Asia’s next clean energy battle will […]
Asia’s next clean energy battle isn’t in China or India. It’s in Indonesia
Southeast Asia’s largest economy and democracy is approaching a demographic shift. In the next 10 years, almost half of Indonesia’s population will enter the work force. Only three in 10 people will not be of working age by 2030. Conventional poverty rates are declining, millions are moving into cities each year. The island nation’s labour […]
