Indonesia's new energy supply plan includes a focus on renewable sources of power.

A deputy minister stated on Tuesday that Indonesia aims to increase its share of renewable energies in the electricity supply plan within the next 10 years. This will be fueled by increased solar, geothermal and hydro power.

This new plan is known as RUPTL locally. It would replace Indonesia’s RUPTL 2021-2030, which planned a total new capacity of 40.6 gigawatts, of which 52% was renewable energy.

Kartika Wirjoatmodjo said that the government has finalised the discussion with the state utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara about the plan for electricity. 70% of the additional 71 gigawatts planned will be from renewable sources.

He told a Jakarta business forum that this would increase the share of renewable energy in 2034 from 12% to 35%.

He said that Indonesia's plan includes 17 GW of solar power capacity (including battery systems), 16 GW hydro power and 5 GW geothermal energy, along with other sources like wind and bioenergy.

Kartika stated that around 5 GW new coal capacity will still be expected to come on line until 2034.

He said, "We'll continue to work on some coal projects that are left. But this plan is closing out the previous one."

He added that around 15 GW of gas-powered capacity will be built by 2034, particularly to support Java's base load capacity.

Indonesia has banned the development of coal power plants in 2022 except those in the pipeline or those integrated with the natural resources processing industries as long as they have an emission-reduction plan. (Reporting and editing by Varun H. K.; Fransiska. Nangoy)

(source: Reuters)