The attainment of 100 percent electrification ratio in the archipelago of Indonesia by people way electricity initiative

Abstract

The electrification ratio in Indonesia has reached over 90 percent already but it is not easy to attain the rest of people who have not gotten the light because they are living in the scattered and isolated areas over several thousand islands in the archipelago of Indonesia. Conventionally, the electricity service in Indonesia is developed by using a centralized and interconnected of various large scale units of power plants. However, many big project of a large size power plant is currently facing many challenges including land and acquisition, financial closing, complex permit procedures, and right of way for transmission lines. As a result, the cost of such conventional system cannot be offset by the expected efficiency from a better reliability and economies of scale of such conventional system. To address this problem, the School of Technology STT PLN Jakarta, proposes an initiative namely ListrikKerakyatan (LK), which is a simple and small scaleself manage electricity development by local people empowerment using renewable energy available around the communities. After passing several pilot projects, This LK initiative has already successfully implemented in Klungkung District, Bali, using the model, called TOSS (TempatOlahSampahSetempat), stands for localized municipal waste treatment. The pilot project shows that a 30 kW gasifeier genset including its associated unit TOSS for 3 ton of waste is cost around USD 40 thousands, the cost of which is still less than rural funding available from national budget. LK needs relatively little operational cost since its fuel is made from municipal waste.