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Energy planning policy finally signed by President
A presidential regulation on the General Planning for National Energy (RUEN) has finally been signed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, a National Energy Board (DEN) member has said.cd
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Men work on a high electricity voltage tower in Waru, Sidoarjo, East Java, in December. (JP/Umarul Faruq)
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presidential regulation on the General Planning for National Energy (RUEN) has finally been signed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, a National Energy Board (DEN) member has said.
“According to the energy and mineral resources minister, the RUEN, as our national energy policy, has been signed by the President,” DEN member Tumiran said during a press conference on Monday.
The RUEN-making process itself was completed last June. The bulk of the targets set out in the RUEN remain unchanged. It maintains that renewable energy should account for at least 23 percent of the country’s total energy consumption in 2025.
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The government’s ambitious target of securing 35,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2019 will remain the same in the Perpres despite doubts that such a target can be achieved.
The government has previously acknowledged that it is likely to procure just 19,700 MW by the deadline.
Dwi Hary Soeryadi, another DEN member, said it was essential that the 35,000 MW target be achieved by 2019 if the government wanted to reach the subsequent electricity procurement targets in the RUEN.
“There is a 114 gigawatt target in the RUEN and the national energy policy that must be procured by 2025, and then a subsequent 400 gigawatts in 2050. So the 35,000 MW target must remain in place for 2019,” he said during the same press conference. (tas)
