How can Plants be Used for Electricity Generation in Indonesia?
Introduction Over recent years, there have been many efforts put to drive the renewables development and implementation. We hear many news about geothermal, solar power, wind and biomass plant development. Many policies have been enacted to smooth the transition towards more using of renewables. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) also offer their knowledge and expertise to […]
How Hard COVID-19 Outbreak Could Hit Indonesia’s Energy Sector?
COVID-19 Pandemic Timeline Year 2020 might be one of the most unforgettable years by most people worldwide. The COVID-19 virus outbreak has led to a total disaster in many countries. It all started at the very end of, on 31 December 2019, China’s government alerted World Health Organization (WHO) on their finding to 40 pneumonia […]
Oil Price War
Introduction Today, all countries in the world are facing difficulties in the economy amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the status outbreak as a pandemic. In addition, there is a phenomenon of low oil prices because demand from oil importing countries is reduced due to a pandemic and falling stock […]
Bumpy Road for Indonesia’s EV Program
The transportation sector has the largest energy consumption in Indonesia. Moreover, this sector has a heavy reliance on fossil fuel. The sector accounted for more than 45% of final energy consumption in Indonesia in 2018 (ESDM, 2019). The share of non-fossil fuel is only 0.1%. Those facts make the transportation sector the second largest emission […]
Financing Renewable Energy Project Through Crowdfunding
Introduction Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia, Arifin Tasrif, stated that renewable energy (RE) in Indonesia has a massive potency and should be developed. However, RE utilization is still lacking. Currently, the RE realization for electricity in Indonesia has reached 32 megawatts (MW) out of 400 MW potency (Setiawan, 2019). Although this number […]
Energy Saving Act: By You for You
Introduction Energy is a vital factor in our everyday life. People use energy for transportation, cooking, air conditioning, watching TV, using computer, charging phone and many other activities. Nowadays, the dependency on energy is very high; without energy, the economy or even health could be dangerously threatened. With an evermore increase in energy demand, the […]
