State Electricity Company (PLN) requires an investment of around IDR 72.4 trillion per year for the construction of electricity infrastructure during the period 2021-2030. The Executive Director of the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) Fabby Tumiwa revealed that with the limited capital expenditure (capex) conditions, there are a number of options that PLN can…

The government through the Ministry of Finance has set a carbon tax of 30 rupiah per kilogram of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) on the amount of emissions that exceed the stipulated cap. The tax rate which is effective in stages starting April 1, 2022 is considered too cheap, so it is feared that it will…

The current energy crisis is closely related to the high cost of fossil energy. Its existence is still important and much needed for power generation. The government must eliminate barriers to NRE development and create a safe investment climate Read more Katadata

50 percent of air pollution in DKI Jakarta is contributed by the transportation sector, 30 percent from power plants and the rest is waste. DKI Jakarta has a potential source of electrical energy that relies on solar power, which is estimated to reach 6.8 to 22.9 GWh based on the IESR study in 2020. This…

The technical potential of solar energy in Central Java reaches 193-670 GWp with the potential for solar around 285-959 TWh per year. This has become an attraction for the commercial and industrial sectors to install solar power plants. The government has also tried to accommodate the need for rooftop PV mini-grid installations with several strategies…

As of August 2021, there have been 4,133 users of solar power plants (PLTS) and based on this data, the largest PLTS are in West Java (9 MWp), Jakarta (6.99 MWp), Central Java and DIY (5.88 MWp). The government has also done accommodations by lowering the parallel capacity cost for industrial customers Read more iNews

The addition of electricity capacity in the RUPTL for NRE only reaches 10.6 GW, of which 14 GW is required to achieve the 2025 carbon neutral target. The determination of the NRE portion of 51.6% seems still insufficient to achieve carbon neutrality and needs to be accompanied by steps from the electricity sector which uses…

The government has facilitated a clause to reduce parallel capacity costs for industrial customers from 40 hours to five hours per month. In the future, the economy will grow in a greener direction, supported by a green industry. Fabby Tumiwa said the industrial and commercial sectors must have an energy transition roadmap to achieve decarbonization…

The IESR market survey shows that there is a potential of 9.8 percent or 16 thousand businesses in Central Java to utilize rooftop solar power. The total installed PLST capacity in Central Java until August 2021 reaches 8.8 Mega Watt peak (MWp). In realizing decarbonization, it is important for industry and commercial to have an…

The Indonesian Mining & Energy Forum (IMEF) assesses that the moratorium on the construction of the New PLTU has no impact on coal miners, where the demand for coal from the PLTU until 2030 is still quite high at around 157 million tons per year. However, considering that the coal mining industry is still supported…

IESR welcomes the RUPTL that has been prepared by the government. On the other hand, IESR believes that the value of NRE can be increased, especially for PV mini-grid. PLTS has a potential of 3.4 - 20 TWp and can be built quickly, especially rooftop PV and floating PV to achieve the decarbonization target. In…

In implementing the carbon tax, Indonesia is considered a relatively slow country. Some things that need to be considered again in its implementation are the appropriate mechanism, the price of carbon taxes for carbon trading, implementation and estimation of carbon emission reductions from the implementation of the instrument. Read more Koran Jakarta