| Abstract |
The 5 Years, 2015 – 2020, Development of Geothermal Energy Used in Indonesia: Problems and Solution Alanda IDRAL Centre for Geological Resources, Jl. Soekarno-Hatta No,444 Bandung idral_idral@yahoo.com Keywords: Indonesia, geothermal, Lumutbalai, Muaralaboh, regulation, resources, SorikMerapi ABSTRACT As the Country that lies along the ring of fire, Indonesia is blessed with a huge of geothermal energy resources, which is account of 23.9 GW or the second after USA. Currently, the total installing capacity of Indonesian Geothermal Power Plant (IGPP/PLTP) is about 2,130.6 MW, or 8.9 % of the total resources per December 2019, derived from 14 IGPP . This value gives Indonesia as the second country (replace the Philippine) as a geothermal energy producer after USA (3,591 MW). The development of geothermal energy in the country, however, is relatively slow, in which, the installing geothermal capacity increase is about 692 MW or in average about 138 MW/years from 2015 to 2020, so the government target to reach 7,241 MW geothermal installing capacity in the years of 2025 is hard to be reached.. There are several problems that caused the slowly development of geothermal energy in the Country, in which the most important are uncertainties in regulations and price ( PLN/State Electrical Enterprise buying price is below economic value), therefore the Government of Indonesia has to work harder to solve the problem nicely as soon as possible in order to gain the Country target for the year of 2025. However on November 2020 GoI cut of the target to 50%. |