Indonesia consists of more than 15 000 islands. Each island has an independent power grid, and many islands are also off grid. It is especially difficult to implement renewable energy supplies under these conditions.
Indonesia is engaging with Denmark though a Strategic Sector Cooperation which facilitates government-to-government collaboration. Previously, DSIF has chosen the Indonesian province and island of Lombok for proposing potential projects in biomass-based thermal electricity for funding. The governor of the West Nusa Tenggara province has expressed interest for a similar study in the Sumbawa Regency to the Danish Embassy in Jakarta.
In the first half of 2022, a PEM team under the lead of Thorbjørn Waagstein conducted a study about the biomass potential in the solid waste from the city Sumbawa Besar to see if there is a potential to combine agricultural waste and urban solid waste in a bio-energy facility. The team also mapped the type and quantity of the biomass resources in Sumbawa, analyzed the market for the use of the biomass, and reviewed the barriers and costs for the usage of the biomass to create energy in the region.