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> Solar power is still fairly rare in Indonesia. While the country has targeted more solar as part of its climate goals, there has been limited progress due to
by sokoloff 4y ago
> Solar power is still fairly rare in Indonesia. While the country has targeted more solar as part of its climate goals, there has been limited progress due to regulations that don’t allow households to sell power back to the grid, ruling out a way of defraying the cost that has helped people afford solar in other parts of the world.
Most of the article is talking about homes that aren't even connected to the grid, so there's no grid to sell power back to in the first place. Sure, maybe there's also a law against it, but if the starting condition is "no electricity", it doesn't seem like the law is much of an impediment.
- woodruffw 4y agoFrom TFA: 97% of Indonesians are on the power grid; those are the ones who'd ostensibly be selling back (not these microfinanced units in the remaining 3%).