PORTALJABAR, KOTA BANDUNG - Acting Governor of West Java Bey Machmudin hopes that the implementation of the 2024 West Java Energy Forum (WJEF) can make West Java province a pioneer in presenting new renewable energy (EBT) innovations that are environmentally friendly and sustainable.

This was stated by Bey Machmudin when opening the WJEF 2024 event at the Pullman Hotel, Bandung City, Thursday (21/11/2024).

Bey revealed that in the forum the West Java Provincial Government is committed to aligning green development to support Golden Indonesia 2045 and collaborating with cross-stakeholders, regional, central and global.

"We are also preparing potential green projects that meet technical and administrative readiness criteria, so that we can accelerate the implementation of the energy transition in West Java," said Bey Machmudin.

With NRE potential reaching 192 GW, consisting of wind, water, geothermal, solar, biomass or biogas energy, according to Bey, West Java has a great opportunity to become a pioneer of the energy transition in Indonesia.

"We hope that West Java will be a pioneer in this energy situation because we have the potential and it should be the biggest potential in the next few years," said Bey.

As a concrete step in developing EBT, WJES 2024 provides assistance to seven SMA/SMK for the construction of rooftop solar power plants (PLTS). Bey stated that the aim of rooftop PLTS is to reduce the burden on school operational costs.

"Only seven schools, the potential is very good, they themselves said earlier that reducing operational costs, including paying for electricity and so on, also increases and definitely increases students' knowledge that can really be used and reduces operational costs," explained Bey.

It is also hoped that rooftop solar PV at schools will attract investors to invest in West Java with the aim of building a friendly and sustainable environment in the future.

"Of course, with this rooftop PLTS, we hope that there will be companies who will contribute to CSR. This is very good, it can reduce pollution," stressed Bey.

Meanwhile, West Java DPRD Chairman Buky Wibawa welcomed the implementation of rooftop PLTS which will be implemented in seven schools. The DPRD supports it in terms of policy and supervision, because it is hoped that West Java will become a pioneer province in the EBT sector

"The DPRD welcomes the EBT program, and we need to support it in terms of budget policy and monitoring later," he said.

The amount of costs that must be incurred in building rooftop PLTS at SMK/SMA starts from IDR 700 million to IDR 1 billion.

The following are seven schools that received assistance for rooftop PLTSA:

1. SMAN 1 Cianjur
2. SMKN 2 Bogor
3. SMKN 1 Purwakarta
4. SMKN 1 Cimahi
5. SMKN 1 Garut
6. SMKN 2 Tasikmalaya
7. SMKN 1 Cirebon

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