24 December 2018
The Indonesian Government and PLN have felt increasing pressure over recent years to find ways to accommodate rooftop solar PV plants in the existing Indonesian electricity framework.
This is both in a physical sense of how such rooftop solar PV projects can be accommodated within PLN's existing grid infrastructure and its constraints, and also how to accommodate such projects within Indonesia's complex regulatory framework governing the generation and sale of electricity.
The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) recently issued Regulation No. 49 of 2018 (Reg 49) as a first attempt at seeking to specifically regulate rooftop solar PV projects, and how they can find their way onto the PLN grid system.
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