Power and Empower: Improving Lombok Women’s Lives by Investing in Clean Energy

Discover how solar projects in Indonesia have helped employ women and have provided economic opportunities for women.Indonesia is committed to leveraging its solar energy resource to help increase the share of renewable energy supply into its overall energy mix to 23% by 2025.ADB has invested a $40.2 million financing package to four solar PV power plants developed and operated by Vena Energy in North Sulawesi and Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. This is part of a two-phased portfolio financing for new renewable energy investments in Indonesia and is considered as the country’s first utility-scale solar (PV) plants on a project-finance basis. Leading Asia’s Private Infrastructure Fund (LEAP) and the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia II (CFPS II) also supported these projects.