Clean Energy Supply Senior Lead

Overview

Clean Energy Supply Senior Lead - Energy and Sustainable Business Program

This is a hybrid position which requires 8 days per month in the office. You will be based in our office in WRI Indonesia, Jakarta. Existing work authorization is required at the time of application submission as WRI is unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position.

Program Overview

The Energy and Sustainable Business (ESB) program works to accelerate Indonesia’s transition toward a low-carbon economy while supporting continued economic development. In support of Indonesia’s net-zero emissions and energy transition goals, we work across both the demand and supply sides of the energy system: helping businesses reduce emissions and access cleaner energy, while also advancing the broader conditions needed to accelerate renewable energy deployment. In collaboration with industries and industrial parks, business associations, key ministries, PLN, financial institutions, and other partners, we provide technical assistance and capacity building to businesses, support policy and regulatory improvements that enable greater renewable energy integration into the grid, and help strengthen the investment ecosystem needed for renewable energy projects to scale. Combining policy and technical expertise with WRI’s convening power, the program seeks to bring together government, businesses, utilities, investors, and other stakeholders to translate Indonesia’s energy transition ambitions into concrete action, investment, and measurable emissions reductions.

The Clean Energy Supply (CES) is an intervention pillar under the ESB program aiming to ensure the availability and affordability of clean energy supply for all. It discuss key topics that are essential to enable a progressive energy regime, infrastructure, and business ecosystem supportive to more development of renewable energy across the country. Research topics include grid flexibility, green power procurement, integrated resources planning, renewable energy sources, and grid financing.

On green power procurement, we established the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA) in 2017 as an innovative public-private partnership initiative that advances policy and financing frameworks to meet the clean energy needs of commercial and industrial energy consumers. We believe that as the largest energy consumer group, the commercial and industrial sector could use their buying power to drive energy transition through policy advocacy, business model and technology adoption. CEIA has led to our partnership with PLN since 2019 in diversifying green power procurement options to increase companies’ accessibility to credible renewable energy sources. The establishment of Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) by the end of 2019, followed by Green Energy as A Service in 2024 have marked important milestones in our efforts in briding companies’ aspiration with national priority. We continuously provide recommendation to improve green power products that will adjust to customers’ variety needs of clean energy, as well as the more robust international standards (e.g. GHG Protocol) and trade policies (e.g. CBAM). In support to 100 GWp solar PV plan by the government, the program is looking into diversifying more business model applicable to solar PV + BESS procurement where businesses can participate and achieve their RE targets.

On grid flexibility, we initiated a research on transport electrification impact to the Jakarta grid and how it will influence the future transport electrification planning in the city. We collaborate with the Cities Program to collect data, engage key stakeholders such as PLN and Transjakarta, and coordinate with the WRI Polsky Energy Center team to formulate global research on this topic. On integrated resources planning (IRP), we aim for national and subnational actors to be able to produce and use reliable and credible energy demand projections, which then enable more synchronized, adaptive, and reciprocal power planning in Indonesia. This will be done through increasing the availability of high-quality energy demand data, strengthening the modelling capacity of subnational government, and building a better coordination mechanism between key institutions to incorporate more accurate energy data. We collaborate with WRI India who has done successful intervention in several states in India.

We believe these interventions will play key roles in transforming the energy system and market. By making clean energy solutions more accessible and affordable for all, WRI Indonesia aims to increase Indonesia industry’s competitiveness in the market through greener operations and products which ultimately significantly contribute to Indonesia emissions reduction.

WRI Indonesia believe that sustainable development highlights the need for integrated approaches to finding solutions that are aligned with the challenge of achieving economic, social and environmental goals that are of