Rural renewable energy development: lessons learned from community-based renewable energy business model in East Sumba, Indonesia

Prilandita, N; Sagala, S; Azhari, D; Habib, A H

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1015/1/012017

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“…Previous research on RE development generally positions the local community as the direct user and producer of the generated electricity as the focus in community-based RE (Guerreiro & Botetzagias, 2018). Aside from the fact that community-based RE often faces challenges in management and business model (Prilandita et al, 2022), several mini hydro power plants in Indonesia are located in areas where the local community already has access to electricity from the national grid, so they do not directly use the electricity produced from RE power plant. The competition over water resources as part of natural resources and RE sources; is not only bound to the relationship with the government and private companies (as legal-formal owners and as investor-developer, respectively) but also with the local community (Poncian & Jose, 2019).…”

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The Role of Local Community and The Barriers to Participation in A Mini Hydro Energy Project in Indonesia

Qurani,

Adnan

2023

IJSR

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The Indonesian government's policy to encourage the involvement of private companies to contribute to renewable energy (RE) projects affects the lives of the local community in the surrounding areas. However, the local community's role in the RE project implementation must be clarified. The study identifies a possible role for the local community to participate in the RE project. It examines the barriers to its participation under the lens of public-private-people partnership. The study was conducted in a mini hydro power plant project in Indonesia. Eight representatives from the village government, community members, and company management were interviewed. The data were analyzed and presented in a descriptive-qualitative manner. The study found that local community participation is needed to manage water as a natural resource for mini hydro power plants. Still, the need for explicit agreement on responsibility and benefit-sharing between the local community, village government, and private companies becomes the barrier to community participation. The findings emphasize the need for formal partnership to specify how local government, private businesses, and communities supposedly develop renewable energy as the basis to involve stakeholders at the local level.

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