Indonesia has identified at least 59 locations in the country to implement Smart Grid systems and this is a part of their plan to becoming a renewable and clean energy country. Smart Grid is seen as a solution to improving their energy sources’ reliability while enhancing productivity and sustainability.
Indonesia’s Smart Grid program plans to connect all Electric Vehicles (EV) chargers to the Smart Grid systems, with the support from their current Internet of Things (IOT) platform and will leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) for its system-wide operations. Even though the country may not have enough skilled engineers, they want to bank on drawing the advantages from linking the distinct systems, creating an intelligent, seamless and customer-friendly experience for all users in Indonesia.
At the moment, they would be carrying out the project with partners from United States but they shared that they would be open to other partners for collaboration. While the country is bullish on how the technology will transform its energy scene, they are also concerned about cybersecurity because of the potential threats that may come from digialisation. They will be working intensively with related stakeholders to enhance this aspect of the Smart Grid systems.
The rollout will include Jakarta, then stretching from Java to Bali and eventually extending to other islands. The country has more than 17,000 islands which makes it difficult to implement Smart Grid but on the flip side, I like to think that there could be a lot of potential for Smart Grid too. That’s another way of looking at it.
The difficulty is not just the geography but also in having skilled engineers and technicians to plan, design and build the systems, gaining acceptance from the local communities and equally important, securing the project finance for the entire vision. Apart from these, we must remember that much of Indonesia lies in the South Pacific’s ‘Ring of Fire’ and, as such, is vulnerable to earthquakes and other geologic instability.
Previously, France has extended assistance by providing capacity building program covering technology transfer. As what I’ve mentioned earlier, they are currently cooperating with partners from United States and partly being financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for this project. ADB is working closely with Indonesia and will provide about USD3 billion in financing between 2019 and 2021 to help the government develop Indonesia’s power sector.
ADB is more focused on helping the eastern part of Indonesia because many of the villages, schools and medical centers do not have access to reliable lighting and also unable to refrigerate the vaccines. With the Smart Grid systems in place, those regions will be able to harvest the abundance of renewable energy there. Then, they would rely less on fuel for lighting, enabling a better study environment for students, storing the much-needed vaccines to eradicate many on-going illnesses that is plaguing the region while businesses can improve productivity and create more jobs.
We could expect to see the country rallying for more investments and working partners for their Smart Grid project moving forward.
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