Government Aims For Additional Installed Capacity Of 5 GW PLTB

Director General of New, Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation (EBTKE) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Eniya Listiani Dewi. (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The government together with PT PLN (Persero) are preparing a General Electricity Supply Plan (RUPTL) for 2025-2035 and the National Electricity General Plan (RUKN).

In the draft policy currently being discussed, the government targets to increase the installed capacity of the Bayu Power Plant (PLTB) by 5 GW to 2030.

"Currently, the RUKN is being discussed, then a new RUPTL will be created and in it a target of the next 5 years. We already know the steps are 5 GW, so until 2030 we need 5 GW from the wind," said Director General of New, Renewable Energy, and Energy Conservation (EBTKE) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Eniya Listiani Dewi in her statement to the media, Friday, September 27.

Eniya said, Indonesia has great potential wind resources that make wind potential the second largest renewable New Energy (EBT) source after solar energy.

In addition to being an energy source, he continued, PLTB could later be used as a tourist attraction, as in Europe, especially the Netherlands.

The potential for wind in Indonesia is also in tourist areas such as in Eastern Indonesia, South Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, East Java and Southern Java.

Based on data from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, the potential for wind in Indonesia is 154.6 GW with details of the potential for onshore winds of 60.4 GW and the potential for offshore winds of 94.2 GW.

If detailed in more detail, eastern regions of Indonesia such as Maluku, Papua, and Nusa Tenggara have the potential to reach 40 percent of the potential for national winds.

However, the potential wind used to become a PLTB until 2024 is still very small, which is only 152.3 MW. Meanwhile, the government is targeting that by 2060, the installed capacity of the PLTB will be 37 GW.

Therefore, Eniya emphasized that collaboration and cooperation with the international community are needed, so that it can be the key to managing investment in the provision of EBT-based electricity, especially those from the wind.

He appreciated the cooperation between the Ministry of Energy and Energy Transition Partnership-United Nations Office for Project Services (ETP-UNOPS) to facilitate the development of a series of studies in developing PLTB in Indonesia.

"I would like to express my gratitude for the high support for the recommendations that will be given by UNOPS as a strategic effort to accelerate the development of wind energy in Indonesia, and together we can realize and advance the renewable energy sector in Indonesia," he said.