Energy crisis is a lesson to Indonesia to accelerate energy transition to renewable energy.Jakarta (ANTARA) - The energy crisis plaguing Britain, China, and India is an eye-opener for countries, including Indonesia, to maintain energy resilience by accelerating renewable energy development to reduce dependence on fossil energy, an executive stated.
“The energy crisis is a lesson for Indonesia to accelerate energy transition to renewable energy,” Executive Director of the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) Fabby Tumiwa noted in a statement quoted on Tuesday.
The widespread fossil energy crisis is the result of volatility in the primary energy prices, he remarked.
Indonesia has a strong reason to abandon fossil energy owing to its abundant renewable energy reserves, he noted.
To avoid dependence on solely one energy source, Indonesia needs to diversify energy supplies and make efficient use of energy, he remarked.
To increase the renewable energy mix, the government is required to contemplate on ways to preserve energy for long periods of time, he stated.
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Interinsular connection is deemed necessary to overcome the diverse energy demands of islands, he affirmed.
"In planning a roadmap for energy transition, (the government) needs to prepare safeguard instruments to protect poor families’ access to energy,” he affirmed.
“Indonesia need not worry about the energy crisis in China, Britain, and India, as it has the advantage to design energy transition through earlier and better decarbonization,” he remarked.
Director of Economic Consulting Associates (ECA) William Derbyshire stated that Britain’s dependence on fossil energy is reflected from the 42-percent gas usage for its power plants
Meanwhile, renewable energy is mostly used for wind turbines, reaching 16 percent.
“If the energy crisis is caused by a surge in fossil energy prices, then the solution is abandoning dependence on fossil energy and switching to clean energy,” he noted.
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Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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