In November of last year, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo officially inaugurated the Cirata solar farm in West Java. Built on a reservoir using thousands of floating photovoltaic (PV) panels, the Cirata facility has a generating capacity of 145 MW which makes it the largest floating solar farm in Southeast Asia.
It also represents an important proof of concept which is that Indonesia is, indeed, capable of building new solar capacity at utility scale when it wants to. Despite years of efforts aimed at jump-starting investment in solar, uptake has been incredibly slow. Could…
