Dear LP3B,
Dengan ini saya forward tentang sustainable development on
energy.Ini hanya cerita saja, dan susah terlaksana di
Indonesia.
Salam, Sudarma
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Reuters News Service wrote :
Indonesia to promote green power plants by decree
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SINGAPORE: April 25, 2002
SINGAPORE - Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral
Resources said yesterday that small power generators using
renewable resources soon will be guaranteed a buyer in the
state utility.
Promoting renewable energy as Indonesia's petroleum
reserves decline and its air pollution rises, the decree
will be issued by mid-May, Maritje Hutapea, head of the
ministry's utilities division told Reuters via telephone
from Jakarta. The decree will force state utility
Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to buy whatever
electricity is on sale from plants of one megawatt (MW) or
less using geothermal, hydro, biomass, wind and solar
sources to generate power, Hutapea said.
While renewable energy may be good for the environment, it
could hurt PLN, which is already cash-strapped. "The cost
will be more expensive for the utilities, but PLN was in
on the decree talks from the beginning," Hutapea said. PLN
could not be reached for comment.
INVESTMENT INCENTIVES
Countries worldwide are jumping on the green bandwagon,
with the latest example seen in a U.S. Senate deal this
week to look at $14 billion in tax breaks to boost use of
renewable fuels. Indonesia's 1992 push for renewable
energy investment failed because the government decree was
unclear, Hutapea said. Christopher Zamora of the ASEAN
Center for Energy (ACE) in Jakarta was hopeful that the
new decree will be clearer but said the challenge for
green energy remains a lack of cash.
"Down the road the cost of electricity from renewable
energy and conventional energy will converge if the
government offers the right incentives," he said in a
telephone interview. For 20 years, Indonesia has tried to
harness its many active volcanoes, but its geothermal
energy is now only 802 MW, or four percent of its
potential, according to ACE data.
Development slowed during the 1997-1998 financial crisis
when the government suspended seven geothermal projects
granted to multinational companies. But they have been
slow to revive due to regulatory uncertainty, a U.S.
Embassy report said in February.
But the pressure is on since Indonesia, with total
capacity of 20,760 MW, is projected to become a net
importer of petroleum by the middle of the decade.
Additional government pressure to go green should meet
general acceptance, said Chayun Budiono, consultant with
Gerbang Multindo Nusantara and a member of the decree
committee.
"The ambient air quality in our five biggest cities is
critical and we can see reasons for utilities to switch to
biofuels," he said at bio-fuels meeting in Singapore this
week. Budiono cited the ease with which his data showed
one tonne of sugarcane could be processed into 100 kWh of
electricity. Biomass fuel now accounts for 302 MW, or
0.015 percent, of the country's total capacity.
Story by Jonathan Landreth
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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