Jakarta (ANTARA) – The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) calls for concrete programs from the science sector for sustainable development, such as the efforts to speed up sustainable energy transition in the Group of Twenty (G20) event.

The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) is developing alternative environmentally friendly energy sources, such as bioethanol for biofuels and hydrogen, to support the transition from fossil-based to clean energy to reduce carbon emissions.

The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and PT ThorCon Power Indonesia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on research, development, and innovation of molten salt reactors as an advanced technology for producing nuclear energy.

British recycling company Plastic Energy Ltd. is set to invest US$200 million to build waste-to-fuel plants in several cities across the province, according to West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil. West Java is home to over 50 million people or 20 percent of Indonesia’s population. In an exclusive interview in Jakarta on Thursday, Ridwan told The […]

Why geothermal energy is vital to Indonesia and how a challenging plant overhaul was carried out. Routine maintenance is essential for all pieces of rotating equipment, but steam turbines are far from small, making them difficult to transport to a workshop for repairs. This is especially true of geothermal steam turbines. And a further complication for engineers […]

We welcome a recently released Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry regulation on net power metering, which allows residential customers to fully credit the power produced by their roof-top solar energy system to their electricity bill to the state electricity monopoly (PLN).

Publicly listed coal miner PT Bukit Asam is looking to expand its business into the renewable energy sector after announcing plans to install solar panel systems at existing unproductive mining sites.

State-owned coal miner PT Bukit Asam booked a decline in net profits for the third consecutive quarter as weak coal demand, impacted by the COVID-19 health crisis, continued to take its toll on the company’s finances.

State-owned coal miner PT Bukit Asam (PTBA) plans to cut its capital expenditure (capex) this year amid falling power demand in India and at home as the company books a sharp profit slump in the first quarter. The miner initially budgeted Rp 4 trillion (US$264.9 million) of capex for 2020, mostly to develop a giant coal-fired […]

State-owned coal mining firm PT Bukit Asam plans to diversify its business by establishing a joint venture with state-owned diversified miner PT Aneka Tambang (Antam) to build steam and diesel power plants in East Halmahera, North Maluku. Bukit Asam president director Arviyan Arifin told a press briefing in Jakarta on Monday that his company would […]