How Will Indonesia’s JETP Move The Country Beyond Coal?
The Just Energy Transition Partnership for Indonesia announced last year – with more details due in mid-2023 – targets coal-fired power plants. Nithin Coca reports on how it will, and will not, change the country’s energy system. Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country and fifth-largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, is crucial to the success of the Paris Agreement and any attempt to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. However, as a developing country still highly dependent on natural resources and fossil fuels, it has long been clear that it will not decarbonise without significant international support. That is
The Potential of National Cooking Oil is Able to Meet 32 Percent of Biodiesel Needs
Traction Energy Asia was quoted by Bisnis.com in this article. Read more.
The Secret to a Successful Business Turning Hundreds of Millions from Cooking Oil
Traction Energy Asia was quoted by Bisnis.com in this article. Read more.
Biodiesel Emissions Challenge
A Traction Energy Asia study shows that the emission of fuel used for the operational process of land clearing is in the range of 10.44 to 13.48 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per tonne of FFB (kgCO2e/tTBS). Read the Katadata analysis here.
Indonesia’s Palm Oil Powered Green Diesel Fuels Threat to Forests
KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) – Indonesia’s ambitious biodiesel programme will increase the risks of deforestation, as more tropical forest could be cleared to grow oil palm, environmentalists have warned, urging policymakers to implement a long-term ban on new plantations. Indonesia – which is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forests but is also its biggest producer of palm oil – has steadily increased the portion in its biodiesel mandate derived from palm oil since 2018 to boost demand. Looking to also curb costly fuel imports and its planet-heating emissions, the South-east Asian country raised the “bio” content in its
More Economical, Used Cooking Oil is Still Limited for Biodiesel
Traction Energy Asia’s Research Manager, Ricky Amukti, highlighted the use of palm oil as a biodiesel feedstock that requires large funds in this Katadata article. Please read the article here.
This is the advantage if used cooking oil is used as biodiesel
Ricky Amukti, Research Manager of Traction Energy Asia, said that Indonesia has great potential to use used cooking oil as biodiesel feedstock. Read this Mongabay Indonesia article here.
