Indonesia Pledges to Retire All Coal Power Plants Within 15 Years

Indonesia, which depends heavily on coal-fired power generation, plans to phase out all coal-fired and fossil-fueled power plants within the next 15 years, the country’s new President Prabowo Subianto said at the G20 summit in Brazil. “Indonesia is rich in geothermal resources, and we plan to phase out coal-fired and all fossil-fueled power plants within the next 15 years,” the president said in his address at the summit. At the same time, the biggest economy in Southeast Asia plans to install more than 75 gigawatts (GW) of renewable…