KSP: Hydrogen Energy Sources Will Be More Crucial In The Future

JAKARTA - Main Expert Staff of the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) Hageng Suryo Nugroho said hydrogen energy sources will be increasingly crucial in the future because it becomes an important commodity for energy generation, transportation, and aviation systems.

"In the current era, hydrogen is not only an energy asset, but must also be viewed as a future economic commodity. For this reason, the government encourages hydrogen as a commodity with potential selling value," said Hageng in Towards Hydrogen Economy: Lessons from the Netherlands, which is the implementation of the Indonesia-Netherlands Technology Partnership Forum (INTPF), as stated in a written statement, quoted from Antara, Wednesday 2 November.

Therefore, said Hageng, the government through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) encourages hydrogen to become a potential energy carrier in accelerating the energy transition in Indonesia.

He said that the use and development of hydrogen as a new renewable energy source is one of the government's main strategies in carrying out the roadmap to carbon neutrality by 2060.

To achieve that, he said, efforts are needed to fulfill new energy sources that are adequate and capable of becoming an economic multiplier effect to support industrial competitiveness, promote international trade, and attract investment.

In fact, according to Hageng, hydrogen will be a game changer or destroyer of an order that replaces fossil sources. That's because hydrogen is an energy carrier that can be used to store, transfer, and distribute energy produced from other sources.

In addition, he explained the government's consideration to develop hydrogen due to low production costs in the future. By 2030, the cost of producing green hydrogen is estimated at US$ 1-2.5 per kilogram, and will continue to fall by three times by 2050.

"So that hydrogen as a fuel will be more economical and popular in the future," he said.

Currently, he said, Indonesia is developing a simulation of a long-term strategy towards net zero emissions by 2060 and the energy sector's contribution to the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of 314 million tons of CO2e.

"To make this happen, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) also emphasizes the importance of continuing to build global collaboration for carbon emission reduction," said Hageng.