Energy efficiency called for to protect environment<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): It is high time Jakarta's transportation and
\nindustrial sectors as well as households used energy more
\nefficiently to help conserve the environment, an official said on
\nWednesday.<\/p>\n
"It's totally wrong to think that bigger and more advanced
\ntechnology will use more energy, either fuel or electricity,"
\nEmy Perdanahari of the Ministry of Mines and Energy's directorate
\ngeneral of electricity and energy development said.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a seminar on reducing energy costs through best
\npractices in buildings, Emy said it was not too late to reshape
\npeople's way of thinking about energy consumption.<\/p>\n
"Our opportunities to reduce energy use are widespread, with
\nor without further investment," she said.<\/p>\n
People should be aware that if they were consuming more
\nenergy, they should improve their productivity, Emy said, adding
\nthat people here tended to use more energy but without their
\nproductivity increasing proportionally.<\/p>\n
"Apart from technical assistance, like the use of better
\nequipment in the transportation sector and industry, which can
\nhelp reduce fuel and energy consumption, the mentality of people
\nwho operate the equipment is also important," Emy said.<\/p>\n
She said that, in the long run, energy consumption in the
\ntransportation sector was projected to fall 25 percent, in
\nindustry 30 percent and in households 25 percent.<\/p>\n
In the late 1970s households consumed most energy in relation
\nto their productivity but the trend later shifted to industry
\nfollowed by transportation in line with the country's development
\nand industrialization, Emy said.<\/p>\n
"Now industry leads in the consumption of energy, followed by
\nthe transportation sector and then households," she said.<\/p>\n
Paul MacDonald from the British's government's Department for
\nInternational Development (DfID) said that he had spent four
\nyears studying the use of energy in Jakarta for a project called
\nEnd Use Energy Efficiency.<\/p>\n
"For the project, my government helps and assists Indonesia as
\na growing developing country in Asia to lower the use of energy
\nas far as possible," he said.<\/p>\n
MacDonald said he had also embarked on a survey in Jakarta and
\nBandung -- as pilot projects -- in the three above sectors.<\/p>\n
He said that in the near future, he would install measuring
\nequipment in some public vehicles to count how much energy they
\nhad wasted and then compare it to the benefit they received from
\nthe energy.<\/p>\n
"It's important for our survey to obtain data but at the same
\ntime we can make people believe us as they (vehicle operators)
\ncan see the figures for themselves," he said.<\/p>\n
It also emerged that Indonesian offices waste much more energy
\nthan their neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian
\nNations.<\/p>\n
In 1997 Indonesian offices used an average of 333 kwh per
\nsquare meter while the average for the region since 1992 was 246
\nkwh per square meter. (emf)<\/p>",
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