Measuring the Potential Benefits of Geothermal Cooling and Heating Applications in Indonesia

Abstract

The Government’s power capacity target, through the 2025 National Geothermal Development Roadmap, may have led to a predominant focus on geothermal power generation development and have simply kept direct geothermal utilization in Indonesia to remain ever marginal. Moreover, power generation issues and development bottlenecks remain largely unresolved. Prior to a thorough feasibility study, a preliminary review was done in order to measure the opportunity to utilize geothermal energy for various cooling and heating purposes in Indonesia, in which the cooling and heating activities are cited to be the major contributors to the ever-growing electricity demand. Therefore, such applications from geothermal could be a potential alternative to the current lagging geothermal power generation development.