The Primary Energy Mix For Indonesian Power Plants Is Still Controlled By Coal

Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Yuliot Tanjung (Photo: Doc. VOI)

JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Yuliot Tanjung revealed that most of the primary energy mix of Indonesian power plants until August 2024 is still controlled by coal plants.

"The provision of electricity workers is still dominated by coal plants with a mix of around 67 percent," said Yuliot in his remarks at the Electricity Connect 2024, Wednesday, November 20.

Yuliot said, based on the target listed in the 2024 State Budget, the government expects the availability of electricity from coal to be around 65 percent. The realization until August 2024 was recorded at 67 percent.

For gas plants, the government targets 17.72 percent, followed by hydropower at 6.88 percent, geothermal at 5.33 percent, fuel and BBN at 3.06 percent, biomass at 1.02 percent and other EBT at 0.25 percent.

"Yes, of course, in order to reduce emissions, especially greenhouse emissions, we hope that in the future we can make adjustments to this energy mix, so that the majority of new and renewable energy can be provided," continued Yuliot.

The realization for gas plants has only reached 17 percent, followed by hydropower at 7 percent, geothermal at 5 percent, and BBN and fuel at 4 percent.

Yuliot said, for new and renewable energy, the government ensures that there will be developments related to technology, and requires the construction of new generation technology and large amounts of investment and investment needs.

In terms of potential, Tuliot said that the use of EBT in Indonesia is still a lot of utilization space.

"We can see that our solar has a potential of 3,294 gigawatts, while what has just been utilized is around 675 megawatts," he explained.

As for the hydro potential, Indonesia is known to have a potential of around 95 gigawatts with potential that has been utilized at 6.6 gigawatts. For bioenergy, Indonesia has a potential of 57 gigawatts, which has only been utilized by around 3.4 gigawatts.

"Coal gasification, this is a potential that we have not taken advantage of. Yes, while in this implementation we have utilized coal gasification of 250 megawatts, while for the wind we have the potential of around 155 gigawatts, only around 152 megawatts have been utilized," concluded Yuliot.