Indonesian state-owned electricity provider PLN plans to generate 41 GW of power using hydrogen, aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060. This shift will involve beginning to substitute fossil fuels with hydrogen and ammonia in power plants ahead of 2030, according to PLN Indonesia Power’s president of the board of directors, Edwin Nugraha Putra. They might be on to something given the poor wind and solar conditions within Indonesia, but a similar announcement albeit at a much smaller scale from Germany left us scratching our heads. The main elements of Indonesia’s power mix are coal (61%), natural gas (16.7%), hydropower (8%), biofuels (6%), and geothermal (4%). The proposed 41 GW fleet of hydrogen power plants would cover over 320,000 GWh…