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INDONESIAN OCEAN POWER REPORT 2023

Navigating Ocean Power, Challenges and Opportunities for Renewable Energy Generation

 

Snapshot of the report

Based on its geographical location, Indonesia is endowed with abundant renewable energy
potential. According to a report released this year by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral
Resources, the potential of renewable energy in Indonesia is estimated to reach 3,682 GW,
including solar energy (3,295 GW), wind (155 GW), hydro (95 GW), ocean (63 GW), bioenergy (57
GW), and geothermal (24 GW). However, the installed capacity of renewable energy-based power
plants in Indonesia stands at only 12.6 GW. Moreover, not a single ocean power plant has been
utilized.

As an archipelago, Indonesia is dominated by sea and water. According to the Indonesian
Geospatial Information Agency (BIG), Indonesia has an area of 8.3 million km2, of which 6.4 million
km2 are water areas or around 77% of the total area of Indonesia. The dominance of this water
area then put Indonesia as one of the countries with huge ocean energy potential that can be
utilized to generate electricity.

Ocean energy technologies are generally categorized according to the resources they use to
generate energy, namely tidal, wave, salinity gradient, and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
(OTEC). Tidal and wave are currently the most developed ocean power technologies and can be
applied in various geographical conditions. Salinity gradient and OTEC-based generation
technologies are still being developed on a research scale.

This report explores the possibilities of ocean power in Indonesia, its potentials, challenges and opportunities laid upon.