| Title | Geothermal Energy for Green, Sustainable Development and Community Prosperity in the Eastern Indonesia: NZAID-Gadjah Mada University-supported CaRED Program |
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| Authors | Himawan T.B.M. PETRUS, Pri UTAMI, I Wayan WARMADA, Khasani Moh JAELANI, Kusmono KUSMONO, Indra PERDANA |
| Year | 2015 |
| Conference | World Geothermal Congress |
| Keywords | sustainable geothermal resources, Eastern Indonesia, Indonesia-New Zealand collaboration, CaRED Program |
| Abstract | As well as being environmentally friendly, renewable, and sustainable, geothermal energy is indigenous meaning that it can ensure energy supply to the surrounding community. Most of geothermal potential in the eastern part of Indonesia has not been utilized, mainly because the characteristics of the resources have not been well-understood. Geothermal exploration aims to discover geothermal reservoir that is economically producible. Such reservoir must have temperature suitable for electricity generation and/or direct utilization, good permeability, and benign fluid, i.e., the fluid that is not corrosive and/or excessively depositing mineral scales that can damage the production facilities and not containing constituents harmful to the environment. The program mainly focuses on research activities related to geological characteristic of the geothermal systems and mitigation of scaling and corrosion problems. In addition capacity building of geothermal stakeholders and community development will also be part of the work. Our work aims to: 1) Build a catalogue of the Eastern Indonesian geothermal systems that have potential of corrosive fluids. 2) Mitigate the resource risks due to the occurrence of corrosive fluids in the undeveloped systems in Eastern Indonesia, to help minimize the failure in selecting the sites for development. 3) Mitigate the development risks (corrosion and scaling). 4) Provide Government institutions and developers with sound guidelines for successful exploration and development of geothermal resources in Eastern Indonesia and guidelines in monitoring the environment of the produced geothermal fields. 5) Enhance the capacity of human resources of geothermal stakeholders. 6) Strengthen the community support to geothermal resource development through public education and enhancement of the community’s capability to create productive economic activities related to geothermal development. This work is part of Gadjah Mada University’s Community Resilience and Economic Development (CaRED) Program supported by NZAID. The CaRED Program is the first integrated collaboration scheme between Indonesia and New Zealand involving the geothermal stakeholders; Government, academia, industries and communities. |