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Australia and Indonesia Collaborate on Electricity Resilience
DCCEEW welcomed a delegation from Indonesia Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, PLN, and BMKG in Melbourne for the Electricity Sector Resilience Initiative workshop as part of the Australia-Indonesia Energy Dialogue, supported by P4I.
The global energy transition presents a significant opportunity to mitigate the cause and impacts of climate change. At a regional level, Australia is proud to be partnering with Indonesia to strengthen climate resilience and support a sustainable energy future through the Australia-Indonesia Electricity Sector Resilience Initiative (ESRI). ESRI is a key workstream under the Australia-Indonesia Energy Dialogue (AIED).
The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) hosted the ESRI Knowledge Sharing Workshop in Melbourne between 28 – 31 May 2024, facilitated by Partnerships for Infrastructure (P4I). The workshop included 13 senior officials from Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR), Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG), and State Electricity Company (PLN).
The delegates exchanged knowledge, experience and insights on climate resilience with DCCEEW officials, as well as representatives from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, Australian Climate Service, and Energy Networks Australia.
The workshop supported MEMR in its ambition to build Indonesia’s capacity in electricity sector planning for projected climate and weather changes. It also advanced ESRI’s work, building on its first workshop in 2023. ESRI aims to strengthen understanding of the benefits of enhancing electricity sector investment to support the energy sector’s resilience in a changing climate, as well as to share experiences on using climate modelling data to investigate potential future electricity sector vulnerabilities.
The workshop explored a range of climate-change related challenges each country faces as power generation becomes increasingly weather-dependent with common challenges including increasingly severe flooding and intense heat. It also included a focus on the issue of compounding and cascading climate hazards to electricity systems and the value in supporting power sector planning with increasingly detailed and reliable weather data and climate projections. The workshop also discussed Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment as well as key climate resilience-focused projects – the Energy Climate Resilience Project (ECRP) and the Electricity Sector Climate Information (ESCI). Participants found the workshop very helpful in identifying potential steps to strengthen energy sector resilience.
The delegation also visited CSIRO’s Centre for Hybrid Energy Systems (CHES) and discussed CHES’s role as a collaboration facility for researchers and industry, including development of hybrid energy systems under different end-use load profiles. They also observed technologies assessing energy storage batteries’ performance against domestic and international standards.
Partnerships for Infrastructure (P4I)
P4I is Australia’s flagship infrastructure development initiative in Southeast Asia. Funded though Australia’s development program, P4I works with eight Southeast Asian economies and ASEAN, supporting partners to manage and deliver new infrastructure worth over AUD 50 billion annually.
Southeast Asia is set to become the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2040. The development of quality infrastructure will be key to ensuring its growth is sustainable and inclusive. Closing the region’s estimated USD3 trillion infrastructure investment gap will require significant and sustained effort from Southeast Asian governments and their partners.
- 109 Australian organisations and 64 Southeast Asian counterpart agencies
supported to engage in direct technical and policy exchanges to advance priority infrastructure issues in the region. - 3000+
infrastructure professionals per year from across the region have built deeper technical and policy understanding in collaboration with Australian government and infrastructure professionals.
Building connections and lasting partnerships among Australian and Southeast Asian policymakers
An extensive network of high-calibre experts to help partner governments quickly resolve pressing infrastructure challenges
Advice and technical assistance to design solutions, attract finance and enhance infrastructure governance
Bringing people and organisations together to share evidence and innovations, and devise new infrastructure solutions
Leveraging the benefits of gender and social inclusion to ensure infrastructure drives inclusive growth
Future proofing communities, economies and infrastructure assets from climate and disaster risk
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