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Indonesia Fosters Investment Mobilization to Achieve Gigawatt Order of Solar

Press Release19 April 202225Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 19 April 2022 - Indonesia's presidency at the G20 2022 is a momentum to show Indonesia's seriousness in accelerating the global energy transition and the national energy transition plan to achieve carbon-neutral 2060 or faster. One of the ways to achieve it is by accelerating the utilization of solar PV, which has a potential…

Boosting Confidence for Solar Investors in Indonesia

Blog8 April 202221Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 7 April 2022 - Located on the equator, Indonesia is blessed with abundant yet (unfortunately) untapped solar energy potentials. The Institute for Essentials Services Reform’s study titled, “Beyond 207 Gigawatts: Unleashing Indonesia’s Solar Potential” shows that based on land suitability there are 3 - 20 TWp solar potentials that may generate power up to…

Financier’s Club: Financing Solar Energy in Indonesia – Discusses Solar Energy Financing Issues in Energy Transition

Event Coverage18 March 202223Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 18 March 2022- The financing of energy transition in Indonesia, especially in the Solar PV Power Plant, needs to be mobilized immediately. The technical potential of solar energy in Indonesia is enormous. Based on a study from the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), the potential of solar energy in Indonesia is up to…

Commercial and Industrial Sector Ready to Encourage the Use of Rooftop PV

Event Coverage15 March 202222Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, March 15, 2022 - The development of rooftop solar PV in Indonesia in the last three years has been very rapid. Citing records from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, there is a significant increase in installed capacity from less than 1.6 MW in 2018 to 48.79 MW in 2021. This is certainly…

Regional Leadership Determines Indonesia’s Energy Transition

Event Coverage9 March 202221Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, March 9, 2022 - The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources recorded an increase of 217 MW in mid-2021. This brings the total renewable energy generating capacity in September 2021 to 10,807 MW. Nationally, Indonesia's energy mix is still dominated by fossil energy up to 85%. The Indonesian government has taken the initiative to…

Regulatory Support: Key to Unlock Indonesia’s Solar Potential

Blog24 February 202246Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, February 24, 2022 - The development of solar energy in Indonesia since 2018 has been increasing, although not significantly. The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources noted that there was an increase in installed capacity for rooftop solar to 48.79 MW at the end of 2021 from only 1.6 MW in 2018. Progressive developments…

IESR Launches the Study of Renewable Energy Technical Potential Map Study in Indonesia

Press Release25 October 202148Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, October 25, 2021 - A comprehensive renewable energy potential map needs to be prepared to support the energy transition towards utilizing 100 percent renewable energy and achieving zero emissions in Indonesia by 2050. Indonesia's renewable energy technical potential data still refers to the General National Energy Plan (RUEN) of 443.2 GW. This data has…

Solar PV Answers Industrial and Commercial Needs to Provide Green Products

Blog, Event Coverage15 October 202121Views 0Likes 0Comments

Semarang, October 06, 2021 - The Commercial and Industry sectors are potential partners to accelerate the penetration of renewable energy. The increasingly strong market demands for green products encourage the commercial and industrial sectors to switch to environmentally friendly technologies in order to maintain their existence in the global market. Solar PV is a strategic…

Seizing and Keeping the Momentum of Solar Energy Rise

Blog, Event Coverage15 September 202118Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 9 September, 2021-In the past year, there was a dynamic change in the energy sector. The approaching deadline of the Paris Agreement and the latest IPCC AR6 report stated that our time shortened to keep temperature rise. It has raised discourse about decarbonization and net-zero commitment from all around the globe. Rapid deployment of…

Scaling Up Solar in Indonesia – Reform and Opportunity

1 September 202123Views 0Likes 0Comments

This report, jointly produced by BloombergNEF, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Indonesia’s Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) Pointing to the draft of the Grand National Energy Strategy (GSEN), the Government has targeted 38 gigawatts of new and renewable energy by 2035, making solar PV a priority: divided into floating solar PV, large scale solar PV, and…

Solar PV and Cooperatives Combined to Achieve Energy Democracy

Event Coverage27 June 202119Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 24 June 2021, IESR survey shows that more people are interested in adopting rooftop solar power plants, especially if an attractive financing scheme is available. It will be a huge opportunity to expand the rooftop solar PV market answering the challenges of the climate crisis on a practical level done individually by transitioning to…

We Discover Indonesia has Higher Technical Potential of Solar Energy, IESR Encourages the Government to Update Renewable Energy Potential Data

Event Coverage24 March 202121Views 0Likes 0Comments

March 18, 2021 -- Indonesia has a higher solar power technical potential than 207 GW, which the official data released by the Indonesian government through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in 2017. Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), in collaboration with the Global Environmental Institute (GEI), presented the result of their research in…