InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Indonesia, as one country with incredibly natural resources, has the very big potential as the source energy in the future. Bioenergy which derives from biomass sources, such as, saw flakes, wood flakes, and palm oil waste, would have the capability to substitute fossil energy in almost every sector, such as, transportation, electricity, industries, and housing. The advantage of bioenergy particularly through biomass product would be friendly – environment alternatives and play important roles to escalate electrification ratio and energy security in national scale.
According to Special Staff of Minister of Energy and Mineral Resource Indonesian Republic in Strategy for Accelerating the Implementation of Transitional Energy and Energy Infrastructure Development, Ego Syahrial, energy potential in Indonesia from biomass would be equal to 56,97 giga watt (GW) electricity. Not only that in 2060 Indonesia planned to develop more than 700 GW of renewable powerplant with 60 GW of them would derive from bioenergy powerplant.
One significant thing to advantage bioenergy potential is by implementing ‘cofiring’ in coal fired power plant (CFPP) which already exists. Cofiring program has been running since 2020 with biomass mixture level about 1% to 15%. It depends on kinds of boiler and material availability.
"Biomass-cofiring would be realized in 113 units of steam power plants belonging to PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) in 52 locations with total capacity 18.664 megawatt (MW), it would be using many sources of biomass, such as, saw flakes wood flakes, palm oil waste with the mixture level from 5% - 15%," Ego said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Friday (6/10/2023).
He also mentioned this would be about to get some goals, such as, escalating the economy of powerplant procurement in energy mixture nationally, reducing green-house gas emission, and accelerating ‘green’ process as available steam powerplants.
In 2023, cofiring program would be running in 42 locations and it is estimated to produce 2.740 giga watt hour (GWh) of environmental energy and consume 2,2 million tons of biomass. In the first semester this year, cofiring successfully produce green energy about 325 GWh, that reduced emission for about 321 ktCO2. Total biomass used in the powerplants reached 306 thousand tons. (T2)
