Research Consultant for Alternative Renewable Energy Procurement Strategy for PT PLN to Accelerate Renewable Energy Deployment for Power Sector Transition

IESR selected Castlerock to develop complex and thorough technological assessments. This study is designed to support the Government of Indonesia—particularly PT PLN and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR)—in identifying, assessing, and designing alternative procurement strategies that can accelerate the deployment of renewable energy.

Indonesia’s existing procurement framework, while functionally established, has shown structural limitations in ensuring scale, transparency, cost efficiency, and alignment with long-term energy transition and economic growth goals. In response, this study adopts an adaptive approach that explores multiple viable alternatives suited to different project scales, locations, and institutional readiness levels towards an accelerated renewable energy procurement.

The study will pursue six interrelated objectives that together form the analytical backbone of the research process. In parallel, the study should formulate and determine strategies to accelerate renewable energy procurement in Indonesia—be it short-term low hanging fruits or long-term policy reforms. Therefore, the main objectives of the study are as follows:

• Assessment of legal and regulatory barriers to implementing alternative procurement strategies and proposal of policy reform
• Assessment of enabling conditions for the alternative procurement strategy to be implemented
• Analysis on institutional and capacity requirements of PT PLN and MEMR as renewable energy procurers
• Legal and Regulatory Analysis of Leveraging the National Land Bank Agency to Streamline Land Acquisition for Renewable Energy Projects
• Design of Alternative Renewable Energy Procurement Stages Based on the Most Time- and Cost-Efficient Strategies