Prioritizing the Planning for Sustainable Renewable Energy in South Sulawesi Using ANP Approach

The government sets a target of at least 23 percent new renewable energy contribution in the national primary energy mix by 2025, thus, renewable energy planning is needed to realize this target. This study aims to establish the best energy source in South Sulawesi as a reference or guide in the decision-making process. A questionnaire was used to collect data, and it was constructed with the criteria of renewable energy assessment. The analytical network process model was presented to rank renewable energy sources in energy development. This method applied a multi perspective approach specifically economy, environment, potential, technology, risk, and social with 3 sub criterions for each perspective. This study also involved six renewable energy sources namely solar, wind, hydro, biomass, biofuel and geothermal, assessed as an alternative. It is identified that potential criterion is the most priority criterion for renewable energy planning with a weight of 0.2452 and the availability of energy sources is the best sub criterion with a weight of 0.4660. The further results revealed that solar energy has a huge potential to generate electricity in South Sulawesi with a weight of 0.2788 and a percentage of 28.6 percent. It is followed by hydro and wind energy in the second and the third ranking.