Accelerating the Market for Renewable Energy in Indonesia

Accelerating the Market for Renewable Energy in Indonesia

Indonesia has the world's fourth-largest population, a rapidly expanding
economy, and an aggressive goal to increase the share of renewable energy in
the country's energy mix to 23 percent by 2025. However, the country's
remote regions and islands are largely dependent on electricity generated
from subsidized, high-cost diesel fuel that is often imported and
transported over long distances and challenging landscapes. At least a
portion of the diesel electricity generation can be displaced by integrating
electricity generated from renewable sources into the electrical grids of
remote communities.

Recognizing the opportunity that the Indonesian market presents, EERE's
International Program launched the Sustainable Energy for Remote Indonesian
Grids (SERIG) project in 2013 to grow the Indonesian market for American
clean energy solutions and support the Indonesian government's efforts to
increase access to electricity in remote communities across Indonesia's
6,000 inhabited islands.

Last month, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a
report on Sustainable Energy for Remote Indonesian Grids: Strategies to
Accelerate Nationwide Deployment, which provides a set of strategies for
accelerating renewable electricity deployment in Indonesia's remote
communities. The SERIG project is demonstrating U.S. renewable energy
technologies and services through pilot project development and accelerating
demand for renewable energy technologies on the many remote grids of
Indonesia.

Earlier in the SERIG project, NREL and Winrock International conducted
technical and economic analyses of renewable electricity solutions on three
remote grids to serve as pilots for displacing diesel with renewable
electricity. On each of the three grids, the project team determined that a
different renewable resource - wind, solar, and biogas emitted from the
process waste of mills that produce palm oil - was the most cost-effective
solution for the local grid. The fact that three pilot grids have three
different renewable solutions is a testament to Indonesia's diverse and rich
renewable energy resources.

The feasibility studies and recommendations for accelerating development of
these three pilot projects are provided in NREL's June 2015 report,
Sustainable Energy for Remote Indonesian Grids: Accelerating Project
Development. The SERIG project team is partnering with the U.S. Power
Working Group for Indonesia - a group of American technology providers,
engineering companies, and project developers organized by the U.S.
Department of Commerce - to attract development of the pilot projects to
demonstrate American technologies and services.

The Indonesian government recently launched an initiative to bring
electricity - largely from renewable resources - to more than 12,600
villages lacking on-demand access to electricity or relying on diesel
generation, including more than 2,500 with no electricity access at all. The
latest SERIG report's strategies for accelerating nationwide deployment of
renewable electricity provide the Indonesian government with a path for
implementation in remote communities nationwide. The SERIG project team is
partnering with Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the
state-owned electric utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara to implement these
strategies.

With support from the SERIG project, Indonesia can serve as a model for
clean energy deployment, especially for island nations most reliant on
expensive, imported diesel fuel, while providing a growing market for
advanced American technology.

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John Diecker
APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.

www.aptthailand.com