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Indonesia’s coal-based electricity strategy, risks wasting
. . . $76 billion over the next 25 years.

With over
. . . 17,000 islands,
. . . 6,000 of them inhabited,
. . . Indonesia’s scattered Pacific geography,
. . . defies construction of a national transmission grid.
Nonetheless, the country’s economic ambitions, and
. . . its substantial coal reserves,
. . . have encouraged developers,
. . . to rely on big centralized coal-fired power plants.

The rising cost of fossil-fueled power, and
. . . diminishing price of renewable technology,
. . . is helping to tilt the views of utilities and government administrators,
. . . who are not swayed by environmental or public health concerns.

Indonesia’s coal-based electrical strategy risks wasting,
. . . $76 billion over the next 25 years, VS underestimated savings from,
. . . energy efficiency, and renewable energy.

9-7-2017 Source:  #Coal: Follow the Money