Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) technology in Power Plants

Kontan.co.id wrote about PT PLN (Persero)'s efforts to reduce carbon emissions, one of which is through implementing Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) technology in power plants. This is also the government's strategy in achieving the 2060 Net Zero Emissions (NZE) target. Deputy for Maritime Sovereignty and Energy Coordination, Jodi Mahardi said, Carbon Capture and Storage is very important to accelerate decarbonization where Indonesia is currently in a prime position to become the center regional CCS (CCS Hub). Meanwhile, PLN's Director of Transmission and System Planning, Evy Haryadi, assessed that CCS development in Indonesia is starting to become more massive and is becoming one of the strategies promoted by the government to reduce carbon emissions. PLN as an electricity company also has the potential to develop CCS. The total capacity of PLN's coal and gas-based plants that produce carbon and have the potential to be retrofitted with carbon capture technology reaches 37.6 Gigawatt (GW). Where, with this potential, PLN can attract CCS business opportunities in the future.

 

Katadata.co.id wrote about Commission VII DPR asking the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to prepare special steps, along with a budget, to deal with the problem of air pollution in Jakarta. Member of Commission VII, Dyah Roro Esti, said that the problem of air pollution is not only occurring in Jakarta but in all other regions of Indonesia. Most of the air pollution comes from the transportation sector, steam power plants (PLTU), and industry. Therefore. She said the government must act firmly and make efforts to eliminate this source of pollution. Previously, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry had taken several steps, such as imposing administrative sanctions on factories that found non-standard things in their production processes, causing pollution. Then the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources reduced the electricity capacity of the Suralaya CFPP, which was accused of being one of the causes of air pollution in Jakarta and its surroundings.