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Govt to prepare energy audit rule for buildings
A new draft regulation is in the works that will allow the government to audit buildings that waste energy as part of its broader policy to achieve Indonesia's emissions reduction goal.
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People lounge on July 30, 2024 at a park in South Jakarta with a view of the Sudirman Central Business District (SCBD). (Reuters/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
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he Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry is preparing a draft regulation to audit energy-inefficient buildings as part of the country’s efforts to meet its emissions reduction goal.
Eniya Listiani Dewi, the ministry’s director general for new and renewable energy and energy conservation, said the regulation would target buildings with high energy consumption, as many had yet to take steps toward energy efficiency.
"If buildings start to use energy efficiently, they can reduce a significant amount of emissions," she said on Sunday during the 2nd Environment, Climate, Forestry and Renewable Energy (LIKE) Festival at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) in Senayan, as quoted by Detik.com.
Read also: RI overlooking energy efficiency in net-zero push, observers say
Energy efficiency has been largely overlooked in Indonesia’s endeavor to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector, with experts and industry insiders blaming artificially low electricity prices as a major problem.
The government has kept electricity prices relatively unchanged since 2017, when it halted a policy that allowed for adjustments to electricity tariffs to reflect macroeconomic fluctuations, such as the rupiah exchange rate and crude oil prices.
It has instead opted to reduce emissions by implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, hydrogen cofiring and ammonia use in electricity generation.
