Indonesia has significant fossil fuel resources, especially coal, which has the largest reserves that can last 75 years based on current production levels. However, gas and oil reserves will be depleted much sooner, within the next 33 and 12 years, respectively. The country also has substantial potential for renewable energy such as geothermal, biomass, solar, wind, and hydropower, but these resources are more scattered. Based on the latest data, geothermal reserves are estimated at 16,484 MW of potential capacity, while hydropower potential is 26 GW, including existing, under construction, and new potential projects.
Indonesia has significant fossil fuel resources, especially coal, which has the largest reserves that can last 75 years based on current production levels. However, gas and oil reserves will be depleted much sooner, within the next 33 and 12 years, respectively. The country also has substantial potential for renewable energy such as geothermal, biomass, solar, wind, and hydropower, but these resources are more scattered. Based on the latest data, geothermal reserves are estimated at 16,484 MW of potential capacity, while hydropower potential is 26 GW, including existing, under construction, and new potential projects.
Indonesia has significant fossil fuel resources, especially coal, which has the largest reserves that can last 75 years based on current production levels. However, gas and oil reserves will be depleted much sooner, within the next 33 and 12 years, respectively. The country also has substantial potential for renewable energy such as geothermal, biomass, solar, wind, and hydropower, but these resources are more scattered. Based on the latest data, geothermal reserves are estimated at 16,484 MW of potential capacity, while hydropower potential is 26 GW, including existing, under construction, and new potential projects.
Fossil energy that consist of coal, oil, and gas is the main energy resources in Indonesia. Most of coal resource and coal mineable reserve were in Sumatera and Kalimantan, especially in South Sumatera and East Kalimantan. Based on the reserve to production ratio of fossil energy, coal has the biggest potential with lifetime of 75 years. While gas potential would be finished in the next 33 years. Oil is the smallest potential of fosil energy resources with potential last only until the next 12 years. 2. New and Renewable Energy Resource Potential The potential of renewable energy such as hydropower, geothermal, wind, solar, ocean, biomass and is quite adequate, but scattered. Based on data from MEMR (2013), Indonesian geothermal reserves amounted to 16,484 MW of about 28,617 MW potential. The installed capacity of geothermal power plant (up to September 2013) is 1,242 MW. Meanwhile, the potential of biomass for electricity reached 49.8 GWe with installed generating capacity connected to the grid at 445 MWe. The potential of solar power in Indonesia is quite high with an intensity of 4.8 kWh/m2/ day and with utilization of 12.1 MWe. Installed capacity of new wind power generation is about 1.1 MWe of 9,290 Mwe potential. Hydropower potential (large scale) by Hydro Power Potential Study (HPPS) in 1983 and Hydro Power Inventory Study in 1993 was 75,000 MW. A recent study in 2011 by Nippon Koei stated that hydropower potential in Indonesia is 26 GW, which consists of projects that are already in operation (4 GW), the project being planned and constructed (6 GW) and the new potential (16 GW).