Ahad 12 Nov 2023 10:38 WIB

Solar Plants To Be Indonesian Flagship Of Energy Transition

In the coming years there will be two more floating power plants operating.

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Technicians inspect solar panels on the Floating PLTS project at Cirata Reservoir, Purwakarta Regency, West Java, Tuesday (26/9/2023).
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Technicians inspect solar panels on the Floating PLTS project at Cirata Reservoir, Purwakarta Regency, West Java, Tuesday (26/9/2023).

JAKARTA — The government will accelerate the construction of solar power plants (PLTS), including floating power plants. After the project to build a floating power plant in Cirata, West Java, was completed, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) said it would replicate floating power plants in several other locations in Indonesia.

PLTS will be one of the mainstays of the government in making the energy transition. Director General of New Energy, Renewables, and Energy Conservation (EBTKE) of the Ministry of ESDM Yudo Dwinanda Priaadi revealed that the potential of floating hydroelectric power plants on lakes and other dams in Indonesia reaches 89.36 GW in 295 locations.

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Of the total potential floating power plants, it consists of floating hydroelectric power plants in lakes totaling 74.67 GW in 36 locations and floating hydroelectric power plants in dams totaling 14.7 GW in 259 locations.

“What we need to do next is replicate this (floating power plant) and we will be scaling up with so many potential reservoirs in Indonesia, given that the government has been actively building reservoirs and dams lately,” Yudo said in a statement on Friday (10/11/2023).