Indonesia

Indonesia currently has over 230 million inhabitants spread out in 34 provinces demanding basic supplies for domestic and industrial needs. Electricity now has been playing fundamental roles in the industrial, economic, and domestic activities of the country. In mid-2018, the country’s electrification ratio has reached 97.13%, as reported by the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, whilst the national target ratio is 99.9% at the end of 2019.

Winston Churchill is famous for many reasons, one of which was his remarkable facility with the English language. Churchill’s pithy phrase about the power of mis-direction is worth keeping in mind for any analyst of the Indonesian power sector.

Just in the last four months, July to October 2018, seven earthquakes with magnitude greater than 5 have hit Indonesia. Two of them were very powerful and caused a lot of damages and fatalities. One with 6.9 magnitude occurred in Lombok Island on 5 August 2018 causing more than 500 fatalities, 1,300 injuries, widespread damages and displacing over 340,000 people. The other with 7.5 magnitude occurred in Central of Sulawesi Island on 29 September and eventually triggered a tsunami that caused more than 2,000 fatalities, 10,000 injuries, 5,000 people to be initially reported missing, and 70,000 homes destroyed.

Coal production has already hit 48.5 million tonnes or 9% of national production in 2018.

It is willing to offer top technologies to customers in Indonesia as its power market is expected to grow at a tremendous rate.

Its collaboration with Chubu Electric Power will allow it to supply energy to Asia and conduct knowledge transfer, skills training, and contingency planning.

A 377MW power plant alone has already reached 114% of its full-year non-tax revenue target.

Over 20 banks provided for the syndicated loan facility.

This puts the $120b total investment by Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam in coal at risk.

The project will yield a 1,760MW gas-fired plant and an LNG FSRU unit to fuel it.

Risks are still prevalent, but experts are finding ways to curb them with the help of governments, investment regimes, and flexible thinking.

It issued additional quotas that will be split between 32 miners.

It missed chances for reforms, investment, and collaboration for business, said experts at Power-Gen Asia 2018.

Experts at Power-Gen Asia 2018 deliberated whether Asia is still in the path of coal, renewables, or the combination of both.

Landmark projects in Indonesia and the Philippines are paving the way, but investor and regulatory roadblocks remain.

Doosan Lentjes will speak about cutting-edge power plant technologies during the POWER-GEN Asia to take place from 18 – 20 September in Jakarta, Indonesia. Presentations will be held on high efficient biomass-fired circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler applications and seawater flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) systems.