With an expanding population and a stated goal of adding roughly 60 gigawatts of power-generating capacity by the year 2022, the government of Indonesia has advanced multiple major power projects in recent months. While many of the projects are traditional coal-fired and gas-fired powerplants, the archipelago nation is looking to expand its renewables mix, with a heavy emphasis on geothermal power.
In an press conference on April 8, state-owned enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan announced plans to build a 2,000-MW coal-fired powerplant in the capital, Jakarta, at a cost of roughly $1.8 billion. The project is expected to break ground in 2015 and have a four-year construction schedule.