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Indonesia to Continue with Coal Fired Power Plants
The Climate Change News reported that the Indonesian government has released an updated 2030 climate plan and long term strategy
29 Jul, 2021, 4:30 am
The Climate Change News reported that the Indonesian government has released an updated 2030 climate plan and long term strategy that indicate the country’s reliance on coal will continue well into the 2050’s. In a 156-page long term strategy document submitted to the UN, it outlines three pathways including a low carbon scenario compatible with the Paris Agreement. Even under this pathway, the most ambitious of the three, the amount of coal used for primary energy will continue to grow until at least 2050.
PLN president director Zulkifli Zaini speaks in front of House of Representatives (DPR) Commission VII, which oversees energy. - JP
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): State-owned electricity monopolist PLN has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050 with a plan to phase out fossil fuel-fired power plants and use more renewable energy in its networks.
PLN president director Zulkifli Zaini said the company was planning to develop new solar and wind power plants, mix biomass with coal – so-called co-firing – in existing coal plants and convert diesel-fired power plants to renewable energy-based power plants.
“After we finish developing the 35,000 megawatts [of additional power generating capacity], we will fulfil Indonesia’s electricity needs using only renewable energy, ” Zulkifli said in an online briefing on Friday.
By Harry Jacques, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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SALIGUMA, Indonesia, April 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - C utting through the glassy water of a mangrove-fringed inlet on the east coast of Indonesia’s Siberut island, Mateus Sabojiat and Anjelina Sadodolu arrived home by canoe to Saliguma village.
Back in their house, Sadodolu lit a wood fire to boil water before her husband left for work at the local government office.
“The electric power is on only when it is time to sleep,” said Sadodolu.
The couple in their forties, who have six children, live just a few hundred metres from Indonesia’s first power plant designed to be fuelled by bamboo, one of three such facilities built to bring electricity to isolated villages in Siberut.
The Straits Times
Betting on bamboo: Indonesian villages struggle to source safe, green power
Students use a bamboo raft to cross a river at a village in Siron, Aceh province, on Feb 17, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
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