Solar and Storage Live Indonesia opens on the eleventh of November at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition in BSD City, Tangerang, and runs for two days. The exhibition is organised by Terrapinn and is free to attend, with support from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and from the state utility PLN.
The event covers utility scale solar development, rooftop and commercial and industrial installation, and battery energy storage, and the organiser puts attendance at more than five thousand. The audience it names is solar developers, engineering and procurement contractors, installers and corporate energy buyers. A co located exhibition on electric vehicle charging runs across the same two days, which the venue calendar lists separately.
The timing places the exhibition in the middle of a sustained build out of Indonesian generation capacity, where the binding constraints have been grid interconnection and the terms on which independent producers sell into the state utility rather than the availability of equipment. The presence of both the energy ministry and PLN among the supporters is what distinguishes an industry showcase from a procurement conversation, because the questions that decide whether a project reaches financial close are settled on that side of the table.
Storage is the part of the programme that has changed most since the series began. Adding batteries to a solar portfolio converts an intermittent asset into something closer to dispatchable capacity, and in an archipelago with a large number of small and weakly interconnected grids that conversion is worth more than it is in a single large synchronous system. Delegates attending for the storage track are therefore looking at a different commercial proposition from those attending for panels alone.
