Indonesian firm in tie-up to build country's first tidal power project
Declining costs of renewable electricity and new push by Jakarta to develop renewables are changing picture
Jakarta
A WELL-CONNECTED Indonesian marine renewable energy company and OpenHydro, a unit of French state-owned naval defence company DCNS, aim to be the first to plug into the vast untapped tidal energy potential of the world's biggest archipelago.
Renewables have so far played little part in Indonesia's power sector, despite the country sitting on the world's biggest geothermal reserves and being bathed in sunshine, crowded out by an abundance of cheap coal and bureaucratic bottlenecks.
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