PT INOVASI DINAMIKA PRATAMA

Empowering rural communities for growth

 1.
The Team
Breaking Bread with Rural Communities
 OUR VISION
EMPOWER individuals and communities for GROWTH by providing a
platform to develop SUSTAINABLE clean energy solutions

OUR MISSION
Provide modern access to ELECTRICITY, TELECOMMUNICATION, WATER
and SANITATION to remote areas using a portfolio of technologies
deployed sustainably using data-driven analysis to match each
community’s unique needs
Our Company
The Founders
One of the founders was the engineer who invented the innovative modular microgrid for Engie
backed Electric Vine Industries. Both co-founders have lead projects to physically inspect over
300 remote microgrids across Indonesia

The Core Team

Along with the founders, Inovasi’s core team have over 30 years of experience specifically in rural
electrification across Indonesia and South East Asia. The team members have worked with the
private sector, development agencies, and the Indonesian government’s Ministry of Energy and
Mineral Resources under the Patriot Energy program and as members of the Renewable Energy
Acceleration Task Force, as well as members of National Program for Community Empowerment
facilitator.

The Company
Supporting our vision to empower growth for rural communities, our goal is to have over 1,000
Rural Growth Service Provider points across Indonesia. Anchored in basic infrastructure needs
such as electricity and telecommunication, our company identifies each community’s needs and
provide the appropriate technology and business model.

This means quality installations, scale-ups and servicing of customer needs from Energy Access,
Capacity Building for Productive Use of Energy, and boosting economic development.
Experiences
Rural Microgrid Inspection
GIZ Energy Program Indonesia
Our team members lead a project to inspect
300 solar microgrids across
Indonesia’s remote communities (see map at
http://www.remap-indonesia.org/). More than 40
engineers and technicians were deployed to
inspect the installation, measured their
performance, and surveyed economic and social
conditions. The locations were mostly very
remote including in the jungles of Papua.
Rural Community Surveys
Self-funded
In the last 3 months alone our team members
have visited and surveyed over50 villages
in three Indonesian regions. We have developed
and continue to improve the survey methodology
to capture technical, social and economic
conditions at rural communities. The focus is to
be able to project growth and predict behaviors
related to not only a current snapshot but also
future willingness to pay.
100% Renewable Energy
Island Electrification Study
Hivos
In 2015, our founder and team performed a
study for the islands of Flores and Alor to
investigate how they can be electrified using
100% renewable energy. Both utility scale power
generation and rural community electrification
were considered. About 100 villages
were visited in addition to local PLN and the local
government agencies.
Designed and Implemented an
Innovative Microgrid
Lundin Foundation
Operational since 2016, the highly modular
microgrid designed by our founder and
implemented by our team members incorporated
smart metering, modular topology and mobile
payment to a village in Sentani, Papua. The pilot
served 45 households . The topology
and design is now being used by Electric Vine
Industries with investments from Engie.
Experiences
Off-grid Solar PV Revitalization
Ministry of Energy and Mineral
Resources
Our team members have been contracted by the
MEMR to inspect 9 off-grid solar PV
sites that are reported to be non-functional. We
inspected the systems for damage, further potential
issues and recommendations for troubleshooting,
repair and finding the root cause of the issues.
Community Based Biomass
Gasification Feasibility Study
World Resource Institute
In 2017, our team members visited and surveyed
several villages in the Central Sulawesi to identify
their potential for biomass gasification. A strong
community engagement was established and the
head of the district was very keen to use bamboo
as a nexus to attract investment to the area and as
a source of electricity. Annual bamboo festivals,
unique bamboo architecture, and bamboo based
handcrafts will be the primary tourist attraction.
Least Cost Electrification Study
Asian Development Bank
Our team members have been involved in this study
covering the provinces of Papua, West Papua and
Maluku individually. Combining rooftop tagging
methodologies and an economic model, each
clusters of homes were mapped against various
ways to electrify them. Grid extension, connecting
to existing grid, microgrids and small home systems
were given parameters based on field studies and
surveys. The result is that each cluster was given
the least cost option for electrification.
Utility Scale Solar Site Selection
Private Sector Clients
Our team members have assisted several private
sector clients in connecting with the local
government agencies, PLN (Indonesia’s utility
company), and local communities. Utilizing our
survey capabilities, we visit possible locations for
projects, perform the survey and analyze the data
for project suitability. Ownership structure, price,
illegal squatting, and the presence of local thugs
were identified early on for the clients.
Profiles
Andre Susanto
Founder
Andre Susanto has over a decade of
various engineering design, testing and
management experience spanning work
in the United States, Tajikistan, Japan, and
South East Asia including Indonesia.

He has designed and implemented

various off-grid solar PV systems across
the Asia Pacific regions. Having closely
worked with rural communities, he
developed a deep passion to empower
their growth.

Andre founded the company to address

this gap through three pillars: commercial
consultancy, community engagement and
market accessibility.
Profiles
Trio Aditia
Project Manager
Trio has implemented microgrid
projects in Papua and developed
potential business models for battery
charging rental systems for rural
communities. With an IT background,
Trio has managed the operations of
smart meters and remote monitoring
units across various regions in
Indonesia. Recently, Trio also added
community engagement and capacity
building as part of his skills and
expertise.

As an invaluable member of the team,

Trio has been managing Inovasi’s
various projects since 2017 and have
worked with the founders of Inovasi
since 2014
Profiles
Afifah Eleksiani
Team Leader
Within the past year, Afifah has been
visiting more than 20 villages in
outermost areas including Maluku, South
Sulawesi, and Riau Islands to perform
comprehensive field survey and analyse
obtained data.

She also helps local community

developing proposals for potential
assistances and connecting them with
broader stakeholders and networks. In
addition to this, she also oversees, directs
and monitors work flow of assigned field
engineers on site.

Afifah obtained her master degree from

University of Sheffield, majoring in
Environmental and Energy Engineering.
Profiles
Regif Asri
Field Engineer
Regif has a range expertise from
technical inspection to community
empowerment. He had been living in
Tanjung Hutan village, Riau Islands, for
2 years, engaged the local community
with regard to the development of off-
grid solar power plant. Besides
delivering technical assistance, he
successfully founded village-owned
enterprise “BUMDesa Bunga Tanjung”
as the off-taker of the village power
plant asset. He still supervises the
BUMDesa to expand its business unit
and develop Tanjung Hutan to be
ecotourism village.

Regif holds a Bachelor degree in

Mechanical Engineering from
Hasanuddin University.
Profiles
Suhartono
Field Engineer
Suhartono received his Bachelor degree
from Universitas Gadjah Mada,
majoring in Physics Engineering. He has
extensive experience in performing field
survey in many communities for various
purpose: electricity, health, and
economic development. He also had
engaged with local communities in
Mentawai Island and Papua for one year
under Patriot Energi hosted by Ministry
of Energy, to manage village solar PV
facilities and empower the community
productive activities.

Other than his technical and local

engagement competencies, Suhartono
also enjoys photography and making
videos from his journeys and survey
activities.
Profiles
Ayu Dhiya
Application Engineer
Ayu graduated from Hassanudin
University majoring Informatics
Engineering.

Utilizing her IT skills, she supports

Inovasi’s core activities by developing a
mobile-based smart application as a
tool for remote field survey and
assessment, allowing comprehensive
data collection and analysis, to explore
opportunities addressing local needs,
particularly related to basic
infrastructure provision (ie electricity,
telecommunication, etc). This apps tool
is designated not only for field
surveyors, but also public to facilitate
data retrieval.
Profiles
Freddy
Civil Engineer
With his civil engineering background,
Freddy has solid work experiences in
project management and community
facilitation. He has been supervising
civil construction works for nearly 15
years and was a community facilitator
under PNPM program for 6 years.

With Inovasi, his responsibilities are

mainly related to civil works, from
reviewing budget plan to on-site
supervisory. He is also active in IDP’s
stakeholders engagement activities
and consolidating Indonesian
electrification and renewable energy
data from various sources in more
presentable manner.
Recent Activities
Inovasi looks for projects to enable community
growth and also self-fund projects to identify rural
community needs
Stakeholder Engagement
Including prominent community leaders, local
government, and community members
Community Empowerment
Holistic approaches to enabling community to advance
their potential, increase their commodity products
Households & Village Survey
In-depth and comprehensive documentation depicting
community needs, uniqueness, and potentials
Performance Monitoring
Ensuring reliable, good quality services delivered to
community
Capacity Building
Community capacity building toolkit: technical skills
and capacity aspect, also entrepreneurial development
Design and Development
Develop sustainable design and implement the
innovations to pursue sustainability
Durian jam (Top right)
Mangosteen (Center)
Wild forest hone (Left)
Cargo ship (Bottom Right)

Access to Market
Provide a way for the communities to market their local
products outside of their local traditional ecosystem
 2.
OUR OPERATIONS
Giving to the community
How do we operate?
Our products and services
Energy as a Service

Solves regulatory Utility grid Bridges the gap

barriers collaboration
Inovasi’s team members
Energy as a service Most of the energy bridges the gap between
provide a work-around access and the needs of the
for the prevailing electrification solutions community and the
governmental we have in our portfolio available funding
regulations, preventing are flexible enough to sources/technologies
the private sector to sell accommodate the utility available.
electricity to consumers grid when they arrive.
without a business area This is even more We provide the services
license or concession important when many required for the community
permits times the power quality to have access to electricity.
and availability from the This service connects the
utility grid is less than people who need the
ideal (4-12 hours/day electricity to those with the
availability using diesel money and those providing
generators) the technology.
Enabling Growth

O&M contract Community Access to market

engagement
Allows Inovasi to Many of the local
provide local staff The local staff members communities have valuable
members to provide are not there only as a commodities they can trade.
first line of support. technical support for Unfortunately often there is
This include solar panel the electrical systems. no capacity to process it
cleaning, routine They’re also there to properly to earn higher
maintenance and build capacity (energy incomes. Most importantly,
checkup, as well as efficiency, productive often they have no access to
troubleshooting. use of energy, the end user markets.
appropriate technology
applications, etc) and to Inovasi will be working with
enable economic local communities to
growth through advices promote local products and
and assistances. services (e.g. tourism) to the
national and international
markets.
Labor of Love
Our community service work in rural
communities across Indonesia
Community Service Activities
We provide these services at no charge for selected locations

Remote Microgrid Operator Training Off-grid Advice Line

Inspections
Providing training to While we do not yet have
We visit various off-grid remote area microgrid the resources to fully
installations of operators is an support all remote
renewable energy based important task to communities, we make
power plants and diesel ensure the day to day available some of our time
powered microgrids for and simple preventive to give advice over the
technical inspections maintenance activities phone or messaging
and socio-economic are done properly. We applications to the remote
surveys. We do this develop training area microgrid operators.
with the goal of materials and deliver We assist with basic
assisting the local them to local operators troubleshooting activities as
communities in finding free of charge. well as ensure that they are
the resources required able to continue operate
to sustainably run and their system properly.
maintain their
microgrids.
Clients and Individual Collaboration Efforts

Indonesian
Ministry of Energy
and Mineral
Resources
Andre Susanto
andre@pt-inovasi.com
www.pt-inovasi.com
+62 811 911 0427
https://id.linkedin.com/in/andresusanto

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