Renewable Energy Developments in Indonesia

Abstract

Replacing fossil fuel use with renewable energy is an effective way to reducing level of carbon emission and one of solution facing the growth demand of electricity in Indonesia, especially in the rural areas where the national electricity grid is not yet installed. In light of the perspective of promoting the renewable energy, we plan to use palm oil as biofuels for power generation activities that will help to supply electricity for the local community consumption in Indonesia. This paper is a preliminary study that aims to overview the progress of renewable energy development in Indonesia, also to introduce background of our plan as one of the solutions in dealing to with Indonesia`s current somewhat limited renewable energy usage condition. Based on expected outputs of our plan, this study tries to discuss our concepts which is to promote of Local Production Energy for Local Consumption and its application which will lead to development of one Smart Energy Community, as one of the key points to developing a Smart City.