Muhammad Helmi Prakoso
PLN Indonesia
Presentation: Matching Stranded Biomass to Stranded Grids for Diesel Substitution in Indonesia’s Isolated Power Systems.
Helmi is a renewable energy professional with a decade of experience in transmission planning, utility transformation and generation business development within the PLN Group, Indonesia’s state-owned electricity utility.
At PLN Indonesia Power, he supports techno-economic and feasibility assessments across a power generation development portfolio of more than 260 projects, totalling approximately 30 GW across 30 provinces. The portfolio covers solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and battery storage, including more than 80 projects serving island and isolated power systems from Sumba to Morotai, where diesel displacement remains a key challenge.
Helmi holds an MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh, completed as an LPDP-PLN scholar, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Power Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung. He has also authored more than a dozen IEEE and international journal publications on renewable energy finance, green hydrogen and energy market mechanisms.