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Prabowo vows 75GW more from renewables in next 15 years, Hashim says
On the sidelines of COP29 in Azerbaijan, special presidential envoy Hashim said the President was committed to generating an additional 100 GW of electricity in the next 15 years, 75 percent of which would come from renewable energy sources, including nuclear, as part of a wider net-zero strategy that involves CCS and forest rehabilitation.
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Delegates and other participants attend the opening session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) on Nov. 11, 2024, in Azerbaijani capital Baku. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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ndonesia has committed to a series of ambitious renewable energy plans as well as carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects at the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, which opened on Monday and runs to Nov. 22.
Hashim Djojohadikusumo, President Prabowo Subianto’s special envoy for energy and the environment as well as brother, said Southeast Asia’s largest economy would build new power plants with a combined capacity of 100 gigawatts (GW) over the next 15 years.
Of this capacity, he said 75 GW would come from renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, hydro and geothermal, even nuclear power.
“This is the new government’s commitment,” Hashim said during the opening of the Indonesia Pavilion on sidelines of the conference, which was streamed on YouTube.
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Earlier this year, state electricity company PLN announced a plan to generate an additional 33.2 GW from renewable power plants by 2033, according to a draft of its 10-year Electricity Supply Business Plan (RUPTL), for an estimated investment of Rp 1.16 quadrillion (US$71.36 billion).
Renewable energy sources only constituted 13 percent of the national energy mix last year, with the rest generated from coal, oil and gas, according to data from the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry.
