Fajarasia.co – All countries in various parts of the world are now competing to apply new and renewable energy (EBT) for the country’s sustainable economic growth.
For Southeast Asian countries that depend on the agriculture and livestock industries, slower progress in introducing and adopting EBT, could pose a real challenge to their gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the long term.
In Southeast Asia, Indonesia is the most promising country for NRE development. This is because Indonesia is a country with high economic growth when compared to several other countries in the region.
Indonesia also has a great opportunity to encourage the development of NRE investment, even being included in the list of 40 attractive countries for NRE investment.
Therefore, the application of NRE in the country is one aspect of the priority of energy development in the National Energy Policy (KEN).
The direction of KEN is the realization of equitable, sustainable, and environmentally sound energy management in the country in the context of realizing energy independence and national energy security based on energy sovereignty and equitable economic values.
The energy transition to the NRE era in the KEN and the General National Energy Plan (RUEN) is realized through an increase in the percentage of the NRE mix from 11 percent in 2021 to 23 percent in 2025 and 31 percent in 2050.
The plan is in line with targets to reduce emissions under the Paris Agreement. Indonesia is targeting emission reductions of up to 29 percent on its own and up to 41 percent with international support by 2030, as described in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
On the other hand, the percentage of the fossil energy mix is projected to decrease even though the demand for fossil primary energy supply continues to increase.
Indonesia actually has abundant NRE potential, ranging from solar, hydro, bioenergy, wind, geothermal, to marine energy, which are the capital of national energy security. However, only a few of them have been used.
A study from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) reports that the potential utilization of NRE in Indonesia is 417.8 GigaWatt (GW) from oceans of 17.9 GW, geothermal of 23.9 GW, and bioenergy of 32.6. GW.****
