Indonesian volcano energy

Indonesia has enacted legislation to reduce the restrictions about the power harvested from the volcano. Experts hope it will be a potentially lucrative renewable energy market in the country.

New legislation has been passed in Indonesia in a bid to fast-track renewable energy sources. Amendments are revisions of existing legislation around geothermal energy sourced from many countries volcano. New legislation to reclassify hotspot energy exploration activities, so they can avoid the problems of environmental protection. It also gives the central government the responsibility of granting licenses to investors who want to explore the site, taking from the local authorities.

With about 150 volcanoes, most of them are still active, Indonesia has the potential to become a leader in renewable energy. But although the country could supply up to 40 percent of geothermal power in the world, many sites allocated for development in the archipelago has been mired in bureaucracy, rendering dependent on fossil fuels such as coal and oil of Southeast Asian countries.

the biggest problem for the industry has become a huge cost involved in both exploring and finally drilling into the earth's crust to utilize this energy source. Jakarta has been trying hard to encourage the use of geothermal power, including its own set ambitious goals to build a new plant.

  legislation of new geothermal in Indonesia has indeed been long in the making. It is a law that is complex because not only open forest areas for geothermal development, but also affect the strength of the local authority's decision, shifting most of the central government and thereby caused a lot of opposition.

How does geothermal energy is extracted?

Geothermal energy, or geothermal basically, can be found in the magma in the planet's core. Volcanic activity is an expression of the energy that comes to the surface in the form of magma or through the volcano erupts. Energy is tapped by drilling wells into the reservoir of hot water that had formed on top of the magma. Through drilled wells, the steam is brought to the surface, which is used to turn turbines that generate electricity. If injected back through additional wells, geothermal systems can be sustained for decades.

Countries that have access to this energy source?

Geothermal energy can be found and basically knock over the world; it's just a matter of how deep we need to drill, which in turn is a matter of economic feasibility. Geothermal energy is closest to the surface in volcanic regions along tectonic plates. This is why most geothermal power plants at this time and the project can be found in the western United States, Mexico, the Philippines, Indonesia, Italy, New Zealand, Iceland, and Japan, and not forget Kenya and other countries in East Africa Rift Valley.

But through different technologies, geothermal energy can also be tapped in non-volcanic areas in the world, such as Germany. However, this will require deeper wells, thus making the process more expensive.