balinews
Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan said on Wednesday that he wanted Bali to produce 350 megawatts (MW) of electricity from renewable energy sources over the next six years.The newly produced power, he continued, would meet 17.5 percent of Bali's total electricity consumption by 2025, when the government estimates the iconic holiday island's consumption will hit 2,000 MW, driven mainly by increased tourism."In Bali, I think solar panels have huge potential. Other than that, diesel-powered generators should no longer run on diesel but on biofuel," said Jonan in a statement received by [I]The Jakarta Post[/I].Bali currently consumes 1,320 MW of electricity, which comes from Java (30.3 percent) and local fossil fuel energy sources (69.7 percent). The minister expects power plants on Java to supply an additional 350 MW to Bali by 2025 on top of the local renewable sources for meeting expected energy demand.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/08/22/govt-steps-up-renewable-energy-push-for-bali-electricity-supply.html[/URL]
SamD
Another politician getting on the "renewable energy" bandwagon without even the slightest knowledge of either the economics or the physics. God help us all.
Markit
If pols needed to have knowledge about what they were speaking about the newspapers would all full of blank pages - pols need to know who to ask for the right answers, not the answers them selves.
SamD
It sounds like he asked his Mum. He doesn't know the difference between capacity (MW) and output (MWh). A solar panel's output, for example, is much less than its nameplate capacity would suggest. It's like saying "I can walk at 4miles per hour, therefore my target for next year is to walk 35,040 miles".Anyway I don't care, I am back in Bali next week after a five month absence.
