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The Indonesian government has announced the construction of a big PV plant in the eastern part of the country, explaining that the region is particularly suitable for solar development due to its dry climate
For Indonesia to reach its renewables target, the government is setting an additional 3,552 MW in geothermal power generation capacity as target to be reached 2025-2029.
Vehicles stand in a morning rush hour traffic in the central business district in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has committed itself to a programme of mass-producing battery-based electric motorized vehicles by 2025 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. - Bloomberg JAKARTA, Dec 19 (Xinhua): Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has committed itself to a programme of mass-producing battery-based electric motorized vehicles by 2025 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The programme aims to produce at least 19,000 units of four-wheeled vehicles and 750,000 units of two-wheeled vehicles by 2025.
Based on data as of Dec 16 this year, the ministry estimated that if such a number of electric vehicles had been provided in the country by 2025, there would be a potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 283,000 tons of CO2-e (Carbon dioxide equivalent).
Indonesia targets coal production of 550 million tonnes in 2021
Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has set the country’s coal production target at 550 million tonnes for next year, a figure unchanged from this year, due to the raging pandemic.
Energy ministry coal business director Sujatmiko told reporters at the 2020 Coal and Mineral Virtual Expo on Dec 10 that next year’s target “takes into account economic recovery, following the Covid-19 pandemic, for both the domestic and export market”.
His words reflect many analysts’ sentiment that, even though global coal demand and prices are expected to rebound starting next year, they will be nowhere close to 2019 levels, when the world was largely coronavirus-free.