Indonesia plans to build ocean energy power plants

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) has revealed plans to develop an ocean energy power plant in Indonesia, with the goal that the plant will be able to deliver 2 gigawatts (GW) of electricity by 2060.This was expressed by the Director General of New, Renewable Energy, Energy Saving (EBTKE) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources at the Indonesia Environmental Challenge Solution Event. The National Electricity Master Plan (RUKN) and the Electricity Supply Business Plan (RUPTL) set targets for the utilization of marine energy power plants. In the net-zero scenario, wind use increases and then comes ocean energy, which will begin to solve the problem at a rate of 2 GW by 2060.The PLTGL Development Program is currently working with the international community to study the data, which facilitates the construction of wave power plants (PLTGL) and ocean current power plants (PLTAL).

In fact they are working with the international community in this area to be able to utilize data from waves, currents and the deep sea. In addition, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) pointed out that the total use of marine renewable energy is still 01 TP3T, and in fact the potential of this marine energy power plant reaches 63 GW. Meanwhile, the use of new renewable energy (EBT) in Indonesia is only 0.31 TP3T, or about 13.7 GW, while the total potential is 3.4 terawatts (TW). To optimize renewable energy, it will reach $15.9 billion by 2030 with an installed capacity of 7.66 GW. Currently only 0.31 TP3T of NRE's 3.4 TW potential is used, and even here the level of ocean energy utilization is still zero.