Indonesia prioritizes gas over renewables to meet power demand surge

Mongabay
Sep 9, 2025, 1:38 pm214 ptsTop
In May, Indonesia’s state-owned electricity monopoly, PLN, vowed to increase its complement of natural gas power plants as part of a gambit, it said, to make its power supply cleaner and more reliable. The plan was part of a 10-year supply blueprint that also expanded use of all other sources of energy that…

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