抄録
Despite having 40% of world’s potential for geothermal power production, Indonesia exploits less
than 5% of its own geothermal resources. This paper explores the reason behind this lagging development and highlight the technical and non-technical barriers that includes (i) insufficient technology development or access to new technological innovations (ii) delays caused by conflicts in regulatory environment (iii) capacity of the local governments in managing the point source nature of the local resources (iv) absence of incentives at the energy sectoral level and (v) historical subsidy program that disincentives investments in new technologies such as ground source heat pump (GSHP). This barriers are situated against development in New Zealand to identify solutions. This paper concludes that creating a stable and predictable policy environment in renewable energy development is critical. Supporting open, competitive and demand driven innovations would help to sustaina renewable energy industry in Indonesia
