Renewable Energy Power Plants Require Storage System Support

The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) emphasized the need for large-scale batteries to store electricity from new and renewable energy power plants. "More than 50 percent of the global energy transition map will come from solar power plants [PLTS] and wind power plants [PLTB]," says IESR Executive Director Fabby Tumiwa in the webinar "Indonesia at The Forefront of the Battery and Storage Revolution" held by Katadata on Monday (3/8).

The problem is that PLTS and PLTB are intermittent-type plants, where their reliability is very dependent on the consistency of resources. PLTS will function optimally when the weather is clear and certainly in the early evening. Meanwhile, PLTB depends on the existence of the wind itself. Therefore, a large-scale energy storage system (ESS) is crucial if the government wants to develop new and renewable energy power plants.