Jakarta – Indonesia has stated it is optimistic that bilateral cooperation with the Netherlands would accelerate the archipelagic nation’s energy transition to increase energy durability and fight environment change.
” So, we hope it will, obviously, speed up the program of our net-zero emissions target,” said Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Arifin Tasrif, at the Renewable Energy and Climate Top Indonesia-Netherlands, here on Monday.
Tasrif made the remarks in view of climate change, which is triggering extreme weather throughout the world. Natural disasters are also becoming more regular and coastal locations are experiencing land subsidence due to increasing sea levels.
” Currently, most of the Asia area is also experiencing an increase in air temperature levels of up to 45 degrees Celsius,” Tasrif kept in mind.
This scenario highlights the requirement for rapid improvement of the energy system toward more environmentally friendly and sustainable energy usage.
It is crucial to continue to enhance cooperation with the Netherlands to understand the shift toward the use of eco-friendly and sustainable energy, he stated.
As part of an effort to script an energy transition and assistance take on environment change, Indonesia has actually created a plan for attaining net no emissions by 2060 through the massive development of brand-new and renewable energy, with a concentrate on solar, water, wind, and geothermal energy resources, said the minister.
He then highlighted the importance of focusing on carbonization programs through numerous strategies such as developing renewable resource projects with a new procurement mechanism and more attractive tariffs.
Other essential efforts have actually consisted of introducing carbon trading and carbon exchange in the power generation sectors, preparing a road map for the early retirement of coal-fired power plants, and implementing the conversion of diesel fuel power plants into gas and renewable resource power plants.
In the meantime, implementing biomass coal shooting at coal-fired power plants is also thought about crucial, in addition to supplying financing for geothermal drilling to decrease uncertainty in geothermal development.
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