The shadow over solar power - The Jakarta Post - The Jakarta Post

The shadow over solar power - Mon, March 13 2023 - The Jakarta Post

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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo showed off Indonesia’s plan to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy at the Group of 20 Summit in Bali last November, announcing a new energy transition mechanism to achieve a target of 34 percent renewable energy mix by 2030, compared with a mere 11 percent at present.

That is indeed an ambitious target for a country, which, according to the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), still depends on fossil energy, mainly coal, for 85 percent of its electricity as the new energy mix requires the phasing out of 8.6 gigawatts of coal plants and the building of 28 GW of renewable energy.

The government also seems to realize that given the availability of resources and funding, solar power should play a very important role in contributing up to one third of the renewables target. We have indeed plenty of solar power to meet the bulk of our electricity needs and solar photovoltaic (PV) costs have fallen and this trend is expected to continue as the growing demand for PV panels increases and the production costs decline as well.

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