key: cord-1045792-dh1geaen
authors: Suparwoko; Qamar, Fadhil Ahmad
title: Techno-economic analysis of rooftop solar power plant implementation and policy on mosques: an Indonesian case study
date: 2022-03-21
journal: Sci Rep
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08968-6
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Indonesia is pushing the implementation of renewable energy to meet its climate action target. Solar energy is abundant, and its utilization is prioritized, including rooftop solar power plant (RSPP). This research presents a techno-economic analysis of an RSPP installed in a mosque in Ngombol subdistrict, Purworejo district, Central Java, Indonesia. This article also introduces and explains the regulation of RSPP and electricity tariffs in Indonesia, which define the economics of RSPP. This study employs an operational and financial model to analyze RSPP in five scenarios. The RSPP design objective is to reduce the annual energy usage of the mosque and yield the highest Net Present Value (NPV). According to the result, RSPP at all configurations based on the type and number of panels yield negative NPVs at the current electricity tariff, costs of components, and regulations implemented concerning RSPP. Proposed policy adjustment modeled through different scenarios provide benefit to some extent, limited by other policies. Hence, a combination of different policy adjustments may be required to achieve the most optimal condition for RSPP implementation on the mosque rooftop. This study could help policymakers to understand the possible directions of policy design for faster PV implementation.

Techno-economic analysis of rooftop solar power plant implementation and policy on mosques: an Indonesian case study Suparwoko 

Indonesia is pushing the implementation of renewable energy to meet its climate action target. Solar energy is abundant, and its utilization is prioritized, including rooftop solar power plant (RSPP). This research presents a techno-economic analysis of an RSPP installed in a mosque in Ngombol subdistrict, Purworejo district, Central Java, Indonesia. This article also introduces and explains the regulation of RSPP and electricity tariffs in Indonesia, which define the economics of RSPP. This study employs an operational and financial model to analyze RSPP in five scenarios. The RSPP design objective is to reduce the annual energy usage of the mosque and yield the highest Net Present Value (NPV). According to the result, RSPP at all configurations based on the type and number of panels yield negative NPVs at the current electricity tariff, costs of components, and regulations implemented concerning RSPP. Proposed policy adjustment modeled through different scenarios provide benefit to some extent, limited by other policies. Hence, a combination of different policy adjustments may be required to achieve the most optimal condition for RSPP implementation on the mosque rooftop. This study could help policymakers to understand the possible directions of policy design for faster PV implementation.

In terms of the potential for renewables, Indonesia has a total capacity of 417.6 GW from different sources such as tidal, geothermal, bio, wind, hydro, and solar energy 1 . 207.8 GW or about half of this capacity is from solar energy thanks to its geographical condition crossed by the equator 2 . This capacity potential is relatively more significant than the total electricity generation capacity in June 2020, only at 71 GW 3 . By the first September 2021, solar energy implementation in Indonesia only accounts for 0.08% of its potential, with a capacity of 150 MWp 4 . This utilization rate is relatively low as Indonesia's energy sector is still dominated by fossil fuels. In 2020, fossil fuel supported 88.8% of the primary energy supply and 85.3% of the electricity generation capacity 3, 5 . This condition results in high Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from the energy sector, comprising around 30-40% of the total GHG emission in Indonesia 6 . Renewable energy has been known as a low-carbon alternative energy source to replace fossil fuels. Tawalbeh et al. estimated the carbon footprint from solar power to be in the range of 14-73 g CO2-eq/kWh, which is only 2 to 10% of the carbon emitted in oil-fueled electricity generation for generating one kWh 7 . Therefore as a part of its climate action, Indonesia targets to increase the share of renewable energy in its primary energy supply mix to 23% by 2025 1 .

To achieve this target, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) planned to increase the solar power plant (SPP) capacity to 3.6 GWp by 2025, comprising large-scale SPP, rooftop SPP (RSPP), and floating SPP 8 . The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), a think-tank in energy and environment, suggested the possibilities of Indonesia achieving the energy transition goal by utilizing the distributed generation of solar power in the form of rooftop and off-grid SPP. IESR further estimated that a minimum potential of 2 GWp RSPP exists in Jakarta and Surabaya's residential market 9 . This study implies a more significant potential when considering other cities and types of buildings. A growing interest in studies on RSPP design can also be seen in Indonesia, which analyzes RSPP on residential 10, 11 , office 12, 13 , educational [14] [15] [16] , and industrial buildings 13 . This paper will focus on sector consumers may hamper the ability of RSPP on the mosque in Indonesia to recover its initial investment due to the lower bill savings. The regulation on electricity tariff also administers a minimum monthly usage of 40 h which prevents consumers from entirely avoiding electricity bills despite the sufficient RSPP production to offset the imports. Referring to the analysis of IEEFA, consumers in the social sector will find it even more challenging to determine the size of RSPP to maximize electricity bill savings.

There are various methods for sizing SPP. Several SPP design and analysis studies adopt commercially available software, such as Homer 12, 19, 39 , PVsyst 10, 11, 16, 29 , SOLARGIS pvPlanner 10,14 , RETSreen 10 , and System Advisory Model (SAM) 13 . Šimić et al. proposed a method for sizing an economically optimal SPP based on Croatian policy 40 . The price of the electricity produced by the SPP depends on the ratio of export and import. The policy imposes lower electricity prices generated by the SPP and reduced income at a higher export ratio. Thus, oversizing the SPP has a detrimental effect on the financial feasibility of the SPP.

This study aimed to conduct a similar analysis with those previously mentioned in related research, which involves exploring the design and feasibility of a mosque RSPP based on a location and the regulation in effect on RSPP in Indonesia as the case study. As mentioned above, the current policies revolving around the implementation of RSPP in Indonesia are somewhat unsupportive. Thus, four different policy scenarios are proposed in the simulations to realize RSPP implementation's financial benefit better. To that end, we present a detailed techno-economic analysis of mosque RSPP in Indonesia for the first time, and the findings are expected to serve two purposes. The first is to define the implementation of RSPP on a mosque in Indonesia. The second is to provide insights to policymakers on the effectiveness of the current supporting policy for implementing the system for a specific end-user.

This paper is structured into four chapters. Chapter 1 covers the introduction and literature reviews of related studies. In chapter 2, the methods and the assumptions adopted in this paper are elaborated. Chapter 3 presents the result of the design. Chapter 4 presents the discussion and the conclusion of this paper.

This chapter describes the assumptions based on the case study, followed by the methods employed, consisting of three main activities: data acquisition, RSPP design, and design result analysis. The analyses in each activity are done using codes written in MATLAB.

Case study. The Ontowiryo Mosque is located at 109.96° Longitude, −7.85° Latitude, in Wonosari village, Ngombol subdistrict, at the south side of Purworejo district, Central Java. The configuration of the roof, azimuth, tilt, and area, is presented in Fig. 1 and Table 1 . The mosque is connected to the grid with a maximum electricity capacity of 5,500 VA. As a community center, installing RSPP on the mosque further enhances its purpose, such as providing street lighting to its surroundings, given the lack of such service in the neighborhood of the case study. This purpose is of interest for further studies as the RSPP analyzed in this paper is limited to supplying the energy use in the mosque, described in the following section.

Data acquisition. The data acquisition process prepares the required data for the RSPP design process, including site condition data and hourly electricity load profile data. The site condition data are obtained from Solcast, which provides a comprehensive set of hourly site condition data 44 . This data includes air temperature, cloud opacity, Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance (DHI), Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI), Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI), sun azimuth angle, sun altitude angle, wind speed, relative humidity, and precipitable water. Site condition data are available for the chosen location for 12 years (2008-2019) or 4,383 days, containing 105,192 hourly data. Figure 2a shows the average daily GHI across 12 years of data with a relatively constant value with an average of 5.4 kW/m 2 per day. The slight fluctuation is due to the seasonal difference between years, where one year may have a longer dry/wet season and vice versa. The dry season in Indonesia spans in the middle of the year, while the rest is the wet season. Figure 2b presents the variation of irradiances throughout the year. GHI is relatively constant, while higher DHI values are observed at the end and beginning of the year. This condition is due to the wet season with more frequent rain and cloudy skies. Due to the relatively constant irradiance value across years, the site condition data used in the design and simulation can be represented by the data from one of the available years, with its average daily GHI being closest to the average. Thus, 2008, with an average daily GHI at 5.41 W/m 2 , is used for the design and simulation. Since 2008 is a leap year, only data from 365 days is used to simulate a year of operation.

The hourly load profile data is ideally generated from historical data by taking a sample of electricity consumption in one day. This method is unavailable for the considered case study as the mosque is currently under construction. Therefore, the load profile of the mosque is estimated by calculating the lighting and electronic equipment that is possibly used for specific activities and at certain times, presented in Tables 2 and 3. The list of lighting used in each room is obtained from the mosque's Detailed Engineering Design. Electrical appliances used for the mosque operation include a sound system, desktop, router, refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, and water pump.

The final load profile of the mosque is presented in Fig. 3 Equation (3) defines the diffused irradiance, a function of the Sky View Factor (SVF). SVF is the fraction of the sky from which the module can receive diffused irradiance expressed in Eq. (4). Equation (5) defines the irradiance reflected by the ground where α is the albedo of the ground which determine the reflectivity coefficient of the ground. The total irradiance received by the module ( G M ) is obtained by summing the three components of irradiance to determine the irradiance received by the rooftop and, hence, the estimated yield of solar energy on the mosque roof. www.nature.com/scientificreports/ www.nature.com/scientificreports/ This paper studied a grid-connected RSPP modeled in Fig. 4 . The system is modeled in the hourly time step for one year, containing 8760 data steps, and repeated for 25 years (2021-2045) of the RSPP assumed lifetime 46 . RSPP generation in one hour is calculated as a product of the area of the module, module number ( n M ), irradiance received by the module ( G M ) , inverter efficiency ( η inv ), module degradation rate ( η deg ), and module efficiency ( η M ), presented in Eq. (7) . Module efficiency is a function of the module's irradiance level and temperature ( T M ) as presented in Eq. (8) until 12 45 . FF is the Fill Factor, the ratio between power generated at maximum power point and the product of V oc with I sc . G STC and T STC are the standard conditions for irradiance and temperature when the PV modules were tested, at 1000 Wm −2 and 25 °C. The module's temperature ( T M ) is determined through the fluid-dynamic model which considers heat sources from sun irradiance, convective and radiative heat exchange from the front and rear side of the module. Equations (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) present the calculation for T M , www.nature.com/scientificreports/ where α M is the absorptivity of the module, T a is the ambient temperature, h c is the convective heat transfer coefficient of the module, h r,sky and h r,gr are the radiative heat transfer to the sky and the ground, or roof in case of RSPP, and T sky and T gr are the sky and ground temperature. The process of finding the module's temperature is an iterative process as the h r,sky and h r,gr are functions of T M . Gr is Grashof number, Pr is Prandtl number which equals to 0.71 for air, σ Stefan-Boltzmann constant, D h is the hydraulic diameter of a rectangle with width W and length L , k is the air thermal conductivity and v is the air viscosity. T INOCT is the installed nominal operating cell temperature which for direct mount equals to Eq. (23) . ǫ back and ǫ top are the emissivity of the back and front surface of the module, which equals to 0.89 and 0.84 respectively.

The algorithm of the model compares the load and generated energy from RSPP every hour. When the load exceeds the RSPP generation, generated energy will be consumed while importing energy from the grid to supply the deficit. Vice versa, when the RSPP generation is higher than the load, the excess of the generated energy will be exported to the grid. Equations (26 and 27) present the import and export mechanism of the model. According to the regulation, the imports and exports are accumulated each month to determine the monthly electricity bill. PLN compensates 65% of the exported energy to offset the imported energy. The offset amount is limited that the reduced imported energy can not be lower than the monthly minimum load, equal to 40 h usage of the maximum electricity capacity, which results in 220 kWh monthly minimum load or 2640 kWh annual minimum load ( E minload ). If this limit is reached, the export excess will be deposited in the grid and offset up to the following three months' imports before being reset to zero. Due to the limitation of the model, the offset balance reset mechanism is not modeled, and the model accumulated the imports and exports annually. Hence, the model may not account for the lost export deposits due to the reset mechanism. The net load, the reduced load due to the utilization of the RSPP, can be obtained by offsetting the imports with the compensated exports, expressed in Eq. (28) . This value will be used in calculating the annual revenue of the RSPP, as further explained in the financial model in Fig. 5 .

The RSPP gains its revenue from the annual electricity bill saving, calculated by subtracting the initial load with the final load after the utilization of RSPP multiplied with the electricity tariff ( C el ). In each year, the financial model compares the net load with the minimum load set by the regulation for 25 years of the RSPP assumed life span. The net load is a year function due to the module's degradation rate, while the minimum load is a constant. If the net load is higher than the minimum load, the bill equals the net load. Vice versa, when the net load is below the minimum load, the bill equals the net load, and the excess is deposited in the grid. In practice, this excess can offset future imports when the RSPP generation is low. However, this model only uses one-year irradiance data and repeats them for the assumed life span of the RSPP. Hence, RSPP generation output is relatively constant, which RSPP with a relatively large capacity may result in unutilized deposited exports. 50 . Just as other renewable energy technologies, RSPP is capital intensive. Therefore, the PV module with the lowest price/kW is employed to keep the CAPEX down and this study employs Suntech STP375S 375 W. Each module was modeled in the simulation at various RSPP capacities with the maximum electricity capacity as the upper limit or at 5.5 kWp. This study also employs 9 inverter types from Growatt of different sizes by matching the power output requirement of each simulation.The CAPEX includes PV modules ( C PV ), inverter ( C inv ) and other components and installation ( C other ) as presented in Eq. (31) . Table 4 presents the price/kW of the PV module, inverter and other costs used in the calculation. The technical specifications of the PV modules and inverters can be found as Supplementary Table S1 and S2 online. The MEMR Ministerial Regulation regulates the electricity tariff in Indonesia. For social sector consumers with 5500 VA electricity capacity, the tariff has been 6.27 US¢/kWh for the last eight years. This tariff is subsidized as it only accounts for 65% of the BPP on average. The statistics report of PLN presents The BPP values from 2011-202,048,49, while the PLN's Electricity Supply Business Plan (RUPTL) presents the projection of BPP values from 2021 to 2030 50 . The BPP values beyond 2030 are estimated using a second-order polynomial regression function generated from the known values of BPP from 2015-2030. The BPP drop in 2015 was due to the increase in power system efficiency 51 . The BPP spike in 2025 is due to the significant increase in renewable energy adoption to achieve the Paris Agreement in that particular year. It is estimated that the BPP will rise at a slower rate due to the coal PP phase-out starting in 2030 and the decreasing cost of renewable energy technologies 52 . Thus, the projected electricity tariff from 2022 onwards is set at 65% of the BPP presented in Fig. 6 . The currency exchange rate used in this paper is 1 USD = 14,351 IDR and 1 GBP = 1.33 USD. 53 . The discount rate ( r ) is determined from the weighted average capital cost (WACC). IRENA assumes a real WACC of 7.5% in OECD countries and China and 10% elsewhere globally for all types of technology 54 . The IEA assumes a WACC of 8% in developed countries and 7% in developing countries 55 . Steffen estimated that the WACC for PV system development projects in and outside the OECD countries was 5.4% and 7.4%56. This paper employs a WACC level of 7% for the discount rate.

As mentioned in the introduction, the current ecosystem may not be optimal for implementing RSPP on a mosque. Hence, several design scenarios are employed in the operational and financial model to explore the financial feasibility options.

• The business as usual (BAU) scenario models the RSPPs with two objectives: to have the highest NPV and to meet the load that is not covered with the minimum load limit. • The second scenario, the carbon pricing (CP) scenario, models the RSPPs with additional income from the monetized carbon emission reduction. Climate Transparency estimated that approximately 761 g of carbon dioxide are emitted into the air when generating 1 kWh of electricity in Indonesia 57 . The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses three sets of social cost estimates of carbon emissions (SCC) with different discount levels, as can be seen in Table 5 SCC 58 is the discounted monetary value of the future climate change damages due to additional metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 59, 60 . The money collected from the carbon pricing can also fund the energy transition and subsidize renewable energy implementation. This paper uses the SCC at 5% discount factor, closest to the discount factor used in the financial model. • The third scenario is the elimination of the minimum load limit (MLL). The minimum load limit prevents the RSPP from entirely supplying the load. This scenario entails removing the minimum imports requirement. Such support policy was temporarily implemented in August 2020 through a MEMR Ministerial Decree to deal with the impact of COVID-19 61 . • The fourth scenario is the rework of the Net-Metering Scheme (NMS). In this scenario, the NMS is reworked to compensate 100% of the exported energy. The GOI has planned this adjustment by revising Ministerial Regulation No. 49/2018 on RSPP in 2021 62 . • The fifth scenario entails the enforcement of a non-subsidized electricity tariff (NST). The higher electricity tariff may drive customers to switch their means to meet their energy needs while enabling RSPP to gain more income. In this scenario, the BPP values will be used as the electricity tariff. BAU scenario. The result shows negative values for all PV modules numbers and types in the BAU scenario.

RSPP with a capacity of 0.75 kWp reach the highestNPV of −382 US$, shown in Fig. 7 . Annual revenue is maxed at 138.8 US$ with a 3.375 kWp RSPP. RSPP with this capacity will result a net load of 2600.68 kWh, which then capped by the minimum load limit of 2,640 kWh as presented in Fig. 8 . At higher modules number, RSPPs suffer from annual revenue reduction due to the bill saving capped by the minimum load limit while the OPEX keeps increasing. This condition further decreases the NPV at a higher rate. A negative NPV denotes the inability of the annual bill saving from RSPP utilization to return the CAPEX.

CP scenario. The enactment of carbon pricing in this scenario serves as an additional income when calculating the annual revenue of the RSPP. The increase of NPV values is visible in Fig. 9 , but all PV modules numbers and types still have negative NPV values. In this scenario, RSPP with a capacity of 0.75 kWp yield the highest NPV of -257 US$, which can save cumulatively 17.9 tons of CO 2 e over its operational lifetime. The net load is not affected, and revenue reduction is also occurring at RSPP with higher capacities. The increasing gap between BAU and CP explain the increased revenue and NPV due to the carbon pricing policy. This condition implies that higher RSPP capacity will benefit more from carbon pricing scheme. However, when the minimum load limit is reached, higher capacity RSPP yield no additional amount of carbon emission reduction. Thus, that the gap between BAU and CP become parallel. www.nature.com/scientificreports/ MLL scenario. The BAU scenario modeling found that the current regulation on the minimum load limit incurs a detrimental effect on the RSPPs' financial attractiveness at higher capacities. Therefore, in this scenario, the limit is removed. This policy adjustment allows the owner of RSPP to meet their entire electricity need from the RSPP directly and from the compensation of exports. The revenue of RSPP in this scenario continues to increase with the increase of RSPP capacity, as shown in Fig. 10 . However, the NPV for all PV modules configurations remains negative and RSPP with the highest NPV is the same as the BAU case. As presented in Fig. 11 , RSPP with the highest capacity of 5.25 kWp supplies 84.4% of the mosque load with NPV of −2,485 US$. In the BAU scenario, this configuration would yield a much lower NPV at −3573 US$.

In this analysis, the net metering scheme is reworked to compensate 100% of the exported energy from the PV system to the grid. Higher export compensation allows more load reduction from RSPPs with the same number of PV modules, shown in Fig. 12 . This impact is more significant at a lower net load level, such as an RSPP with 11 PV modules under the NMS scenario can reduce the load as much as an RSPP with 14 modules under the BAU scenario. However, with the minimum load limit still in place, this scenario causes RSPP to exceed the limit at a lower RSPP capacity than in the BAU scenario. Thus, the additional load reduction is not applicable for RSPP when the load limit is exceeded, shown in Fig. 13 . This scenario also results in higher annual revenue and NPV. RSPP with the highest NPV is the same as the BAU case with a slight increase of NPV, which is at −313 US$.

NST scenario. In this analysis, the electricity tariff is non-subsidized and taken from the BPP. This scenario only affects the revenue of different RSPP capacities, while the net load remains the same as BAU. In this scenario the revenue and NPV is increased, as presented in Fig. 14. Due to the higher electricity tariff, the utilization of RSPP results in higher bill saving. RSPP capacities lower than or equal to 3.375 kWp also achieve positive NPVs. RSPP with a capacity of 1.875 kWp yield the highest NPV of 144.44 US$. www.nature.com/scientificreports/ At some RSPP capacities, this scenario may also reduce the annual electricity bill, lower than the subsidized tariff scheme. Over the RSPP operational life span, the subsidized electricity tariff ranges between 6.27 and 7.87 US¢/kWh. Without any RSPP utilization, annual electricity bill of the mosque during this period ranges between 386.55 and 485.11 US$. Meanwhile the unsubsidized tariff ranges between 9.64 and 12.10 US¢/kWh. Hence, the annual electricity bill for different RSPP capacities under the NST scenario can be seen in Fig. 15 . Despite the increased electricity tariff, the annual electricity bill of mosque with 3 kWp and 3.375 kWp RSPP are 355.86 www.nature.com/scientificreports/ and 319.52 US$, lower than those of in the subsidized tariff scheme. Higher capacities RSPP also result in lower annual bill but these systems have negative NPVs.

It is important to note that the NPV of the RSPPs in this scenario can not be directly compared with the NPV of RSPPs in BAU scenario presented in Fig. 7 . Zero NPV may denote that the RSPP is able to return the investment. It also implies that investing in such RSPP would result in the same cost as meeting the load fully by importing electricity from the grid. Therefore, due to the tariff difference, the mosque will spend more money in NST scenario than in BAU in meeting the load. When incorporated, the present value of additional bill for 25 years of usage due to the increased electricity tariff is 2,834.23 US$. Thus, when compared to the current subsidized tariff condition, overall cost on meeting the load is higher in NST scenario. presents that RSPP can help reduce this cost slightly, as can be seen from the slight NPV increase for system with capacity lower and equal to 3.375 kWp. The highest NPV for the NST scenario in this analysis is −2,689.8 US$, which is reached with a 1.875 kWp RSPP as shown in Fig. 16 .

In this paper, we have assessed the design of RSPP on a mosque and its economic implications. Despite the carbon reduction benefit, at the current electricity tariff and capital costs of the components, and the implemented regulations around the adoption of RSPP, it is financially unfeasible to install a rooftop PV system on a mosque indicated by the negative NPV. The highest NPV of −382 US$ is achieved with a 0.75 kWp RSPP. The subsidized tariff of electricity caused lower annual revenue for RSPP to recover its CAPEX. The partial export compensation forces users to increase the RSPP capacity to get the same energy from an RSPP in a full export scenario. However, the minimum load limit regulation prevents users from installing high-capacity RSPP due to the capped revenue and the increasing OPEX that is a function of RSPP capacity. The results of this study reflect well with the study by Darghouth et al. that the low electricity tariff and minimum load limit hampers the financial attractiveness of RSPP in Indonesia. This study also broadens scope of the previous study by including analysis on customers in social sectors as well as different scenarios. The Indonesia's less supportive regulatory structure on RSPP may result in the differing conclusions to existing studies on SPP integration on mosques in other countries where positive results were documented.

The result of this paper should serve policymakers as a reflection of the prevailing regulation on the adoption of PV in the power sector. This paper provides an insight that the plan to increase the share of renewable sources to 23% in the power generation by 2025 can be hampered by the prevailing regulation. Several policy adjustments were proposed and modeled to explore their implications on the financial attractiveness of RSPP:

1. Carbon pricing, export compensation rework and non-subsidized tariffs increase revenue and NPV as a function of the RSPP capacity until the minimum load limit is reached. The adjustment on minimum load limit should be prioritized to maximize the implementation of other supporting regulation. 2. The result shows that in the scope of the project, the enactment of non-subsidized tariff can increase the financial feasibility of RSPP indicated by the positive NPV and low annual electricity bill. However, the significant increase of electricity tariff shifts the present value down. Since the main hurdle of RSPP is the CAPEX, it is suggested to relocate the subsidy from electricity tariff to fund the deployment of RSPP. For the case study analyzed, the discounted amount of subsidy given by the government for 25 years of usage is around 2,834.23 US$. The same amount of money can fund a 2.8 kWp RSPP. According to the analysis, RSPP with this capacity can reduce the annual bill of the studied mosque to a level that is equal to or lower than the annual bill in the subsidized tariff scheme. In addition to that, RSPP also provide an opportunity for carbon emission reduction. Overall, such approach can increase the effectiveness of government's fund spending in supporting the electrification program while pursuing the target of renewable energy integration. www.nature.com/scientificreports/ The need for further exploration is also supported by the large diversity of worship facilities in different areas in Indonesia that are not yet electrified. Expanding the study scope utilization of the mosques as a community center and distributed generation for renewable energy is also of further interest.

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