Opportunity Assessment of Virtual Power Plant Implementation for Sustainable Renewable Energy Development in Indonesia Power System Network

Agus Setiawan, Fauzan Hanif Jufri, Fatih Dzulfiqar, Muhammad Gillfran Samual, Zainal Arifin, Fahmi Firdaus Angkasa, Dwi Riana Aryani, Iwa Garniwa and Budi Sudiarto ()
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Agus Setiawan: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16425, Indonesia
Fauzan Hanif Jufri: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16425, Indonesia
Fatih Dzulfiqar: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16425, Indonesia
Muhammad Gillfran Samual: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16425, Indonesia
Zainal Arifin: Department of Power and Renewable Energy, Institut Teknologi PLN, Jakarta 11750, Indonesia
Fahmi Firdaus Angkasa: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia
Dwi Riana Aryani: Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Republic of Korea
Iwa Garniwa: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16425, Indonesia
Budi Sudiarto: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16425, Indonesia

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-18

Abstract: Renewable energy sources have become one of the important roles for sustainable energy development. One of the promising mechanisms to deploy renewable energy is through a Virtual Power Plant (VPP), which can integrate various distributed renewable energy resources into a single controllable and deployable entity. This paper examines the opportunity for VPP adoption in Indonesia, which investigates the minimum implementation criteria, provides a gap analysis for VPP implementation, and proposes recommendations for VPP implementation in Indonesia. The implementation criteria are obtained from the literature review, including the lessons learned from other countries, and categorized into four aspects: regulatory, technical, economic, and social. The gap analysis is performed by evaluating the current state of Indonesia’s utility network in correlation with the VPP minimum implementation criteria and then provides a scoring matrix for each criterion. Lastly, the recommendations are arranged to narrow these gaps, organized into ten key focus points, and divided into four phases, initiation, preparation, piloting, and deployment, across a ten-year timeframe.

Keywords: distributed energy resources; distributed generation; renewable energy; virtual power plant (VPP); sustainable energy development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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