JakartaGlobe-Oct 23
Iceland is seeking to partner with Indonesia as the latter tries to harness its largely untapped geothermal potential.
Icelandic Ambassador to Indonesia Stefán Haukur Jóhannesson presented Monday his letters of credentials to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, thus formally starting his ambassadorship in the geothermal-rich country. In a video broadcasted by the Presidential Secretariat, Jóhannesson said that Iceland was well-experienced in capturing the earth’s heat to meet its energy needs. The ambassador also revealed Iceland’s plans to share its geothermal technologies with Indonesia. “Indonesia has one of the biggest reservoirs of geothermal energy in the world. Iceland has been harnessing geothermal energy for over a hundred years now. We have quite significant technologies that we can offer to Indonesia,” Jóhannesson said. The envoy added that he had facilitated Icelandic geothermal firms to have business-to-business (B2B) meetings at the Indonesia International Geothermal Convention and Exhibition (IIGCE) not long ago. Government data shows that Indonesia holds 40 percent of the world’s geothermal reserves. The Energy Ministry estimates revealed that Indonesia’s geothermal potential stood at around 23 gigawatts. Indonesia has already installed a number of geothermal power plants with a combined capacity of approximately 2.3 gigawatts. Iceland says that 66 percent of its primary energy sources come from geothermal. Read more at: https://jakartaglobe.id/news/indonesias-huge-geothermal-potential-catches-icelands-attention
