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Indonesia Must Shut Coal Plants Every Year to Hit Climate Goal
- President Prabowo Subianto has promised to retire fuel by 2040
- Coal-dependent country’s renewables rollout has proved slow
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Indonesia needs to shut multiple coal plants a year while also tripling renewables to meet its new president’s ambition of a full phase-out of the fossil fuel by 2040, according to climate consultancy Ember.
The Southeast Asian country, which relies on the dirty fuel for the vast majority of its power needs, must “turbocharge its renewable ambitions” by adding 8 gigawatts of clean energy annually, Ember said in a report on Wednesday. By contrast, the nation added 3.3 gigawatts between 2018 and 2023, the consultancy said separately.