Jakarta – PT PLN (Persero), through PLN Nusantara Power, has successfully operated the first Green Hydrogen Plant (GHP) in Indonesia located at Muara Karang Steam Gas Power Plant (PLTGU), Jakarta. The facility can produce 51 tonnes of green hydrogen per year, which is particularly important given that the demand for green hydrogen in Indonesia is projected to increase to 32.8 million tonnes per year by 2060.
PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo said that the GHP is the result of innovations that PLN continues to make in responding to the challenges of energy transition. One of the uses of hydrogen is for transport fuel.
“This PLN initiative includes the use of renewable energy sources, such as solar power plants (PLTS) and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) derived from the Kamojang geothermal power plant (PLTP), all of which are used in the production of green hydrogen,” he said.
PLN plans to continue developing green hydrogen facilities at 15 of its power plants, potentially producing up to 222 tonnes of hydrogen per year. This amount could power around 650 cars travelling 100km every day for a year.
“This will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by oil-fuelled vehicles. For a distance of 10 kilometres, for example, an oil-fueled vehicle produces 2.4 kg of CO2 emissions. By using green hydrogen with zero emissions, it can avoid emissions of nearly 6 thousand tonnes of CO2e per year,” said Prasodjo.
Principal Expert Researcher of the Energy Conversion and Conservation Research Centre of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Prof Dr Eng Eniya Listiani Dewi, emphasised that green hydrogen will play a central role in the future economy. This is because using green hydrogen reaches the power generation, industry, housing and transportation sectors.
“The transport sector is expected to absorb about 80% of hydrogen use, especially when by 2030, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) can be produced locally,” she said.
Within this framework, Dewi said, BRIN has developed FCEV prototypes, such as golf cars with hydrogen fuel cell-based engines, which can play an important role in supporting the use of hydrogen as a green energy source in the automotive industry in Indonesia. (Hartatik)
Banner photo: PLN Nusantara Power operates the first Green Hydrogen Plant (GHP) in Indonesia at Muara Karang Steam Gas Power Plant (PLTGU), Jakarta, Thursday (12/10). (Source: PLN)
