Energy Ministry Planning Solar Park In Eastern Indonesia

Indonesian Energy Ministry Announces Large Scale Solar PV Park In Eastern Indonesia With Focus On Massive Deployment Of Solar Power Plants In Country

Energy Ministry Planning Solar Park In Eastern Indonesia

Indonesia’s eastern region may soon attract solar power investment as the country’s Energy Ministry revealed it is planning a large scale solar park here. (Photo Credit: The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources)

  • Indonesia is planning to develop a solar park in eastern part of the country of an unidentified capacity
  • The Energy Ministry said it wants to develop a park on the lines of those being worked out in Abu Dhabi, Portugal and Saudi Arabia
  • Cost competitiveness of solar PV technology and its ability to compete against fossil fuel plants is a reason the country wants to push for it

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) in Indonesia has announced plans to develop a utility scale solar power park of unidentified capacity in Eastern Indonesia. The idea is to build solar parks such as those in Abu Dhabi, Portugal and Saudi Arabia, said the Director General of New, Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation (EBTKE), Dadan Kusdiana.

Eastern Indonesia is the region of choice for the development of large scale PV projects thanks to the area being dry, with good solar radiation and lower rainfall.

And the reason for Indonesia to chase 17,687 MW of solar power plant capacity by 2035 is pretty clear too—it is driven by economics since solar PV has become cost competitive and is able to compete against fossil fuel plants, Kusdiana said.

Under the country’s National Energy Policy (KEN), it aims to have 6.5 GW of solar power capacity by 2025 scaling it up to 45 GW by 2050. However till the end of 2019, it was still sitting on merely 198 MW of PV capacity, as per the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

In December 2020, state utility PT PLN (Persero) launched a tender seeking to pre-qualify interested bidders to develop solar power plants it would tender in the future (see Indonesian State Utility Launches Solar Tender).

Meanwhile, corporate solar power procurement is becoming a popular tool also for companies in Indonesia to lower their costs and do good on their environmental commitments. Earlier this month, tyre producer Elang Perdana had a big rooftop solar PV systems coming online, installed by Cleantech Solar (see 4.5 MW Rooftop Solar PV System In Indonesia).

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