Open AccessRenewable Energy Developments in Indonesia
Author(s) -
Muhammad Zulkifli,
Ryoji Tohyama,
Tomohiro Tohyama,
Kazuyuki Maeda
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
epi international journal of engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2621-0541
pISSN - 2615-5109
DOI - 10.25042/epi-ije.022019.15
Subject(s) - renewable energy , environmental economics , development plan , electricity generation , fossil fuel , electricity , energy development , consumption (sociology) , business , natural resource economics , renewable energy credit , feed in tariff , energy policy , economics , power (physics) , engineering , waste management , civil engineering , social science , sociology , electrical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
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.