Geothermal in Indonesia
Power expansion has been massively
targeted by at least last two President regimes, SBY with his two editions of
10,000 MW and Joko Widodo with his 35,000 MW. Among the programs, one of the
concerns is the renewable energy especially geothermal. Indonesian geothermal
has just developed faster, raising hopes for the future. With approximately 23
GW resources, Indonesia would one day become a geothermal superpower country.
And today, although it remains unnoticed, Indonesian geothermal leads at the
forefront. Facing the years ahead, Indonesia even poses a possibility to become
the largest geothermal user in the world.
At the end of 2020, global installed
geothermal power capacity in 10 top geothermal user countries reached 15.3 GW
or 13% of the total global geothermal resources. At the same time, Indonesia
has installed 2,130 MW from 16 projects or accounts to 9% of its total
national resources. Slow but sure, Indonesia now is the 2nd largest
geothermal user in the world after the United States (US) (3,676 MW), surpassed
Philippines (1,918 MW) in the 3rd position. Among the top-rank
geothermal users, only Indonesia that has a significant and continuous rising
energy demand which makes room for further geothermal expansion widely open. By
2021, it is expected that some new projects will reach commercial operation
date including Sorik Marapi Unit-2 (45MW), Sokoria Unit-1 (5 MW), Rantau Dedap Unit-1
(90 MW), and Dieng small-scale (10 MW), those will add the capacity of
operating plant in Indonesia.