Coal power plants in Indonesia: ownership, investments, and impacts

This dataset includes information on coal power plants in Indonesia. It was created by merging different dataset such as the Global Energy Monitor (GEM, formerly Coalswarm), an open-access source on coal power plants; an open-access database on emissions of coal power plants in Indonesia published by the American Chemical Society containing data from the proprietary database Platts (ACS, n.d.), which was the primary source of emission data; and NDRC's Consolidated Coal and Renewable Energy Database 2017. This data was crosschecked with investment data from the China Global Investment tracker (AEI, 2018) and with the Financial Times' proprietary FDI Markets database. The resulting database includes plants that are above 50 MW of power. The database includes details of new variables. New variables indicate the status of the plant (i.e., open for tender was created to differentiate announced projects that have yet to receive any interest from potential investors); to show the year of announcement and the expected completion; and to display the leading country(ies) responsible for investing, financing, building, or supplying materials for each plant. The sources were at times conflicting or had to be updated or modified based on available information. The manual analysis of each coal power plant revealed GEM to be the most updated source, but that at times the data still needed updating based on the latest available news, which was recorded in the dataset. The database includes notes on modifications, alterations, and correspondence between data sources.