Government told to favor community-based power plant development

Published on 02/11/2024 GMT+7 Reading time 4 minutes

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In a condition where global funding and the government have more focus on large-scale power plants, community-based small-scale power plants have the potential to provide electricity for people in remote and underdeveloped regions, a study has revealed.

An Indonesian study case, presented in a report titled Banking on Renewables: Powering People, Protecting the Planet released by Resource, Trend Asia and a coalition of international civil society groups, reveals that community-based small-scale power plants, such as micro-hydropower plants developed in Ciptagelar indigenous village, Sukabumi regency, West Java and in Batu Sanggan village, Kampar regency, Riau, have provided an answer to people’s electricity needs in areas which are out of the State power utility PT PLN to reach.

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