Abstract:
The group in the Kerinci Seblat National Park area is the main watershed, namely the Batanghari
watershed, Musi watershed and the western coastal watershed, the watershed is vital to fulfilling
the water needs of the lives and lives of millions of people living in the area . The potential of
existing water in the forest area can be used to drive the electricity generation system. Existing
water potential is one of the primary energy that can be used as renewable energy. Electric energy
is already a primary need for modern Indonesian society today. This situation is characterized by
the community's dependence on electrical energy in carrying out activities of daily life, both at
home, at the office, in hotels and in industrial processes, all of which rely heavily on electrical
energy.
Indonesia is blessed with primary energy resources thar are very potential to build new and
renewable energy-based power plants such us nuclear, geothermal power, hydropower, niomass,
wind power, solar power and ocean wave energythat have notbeen optimall utilized.
Consideration of energy conservation and the environment require us to immediatelybe able to
ultilize renewable energy – which is easily available and more environmentallt friendly than fossil
energy.
Alternative energy development is absolutely necessary, therefore it is necessary to survey river
potential, especially in the Kerinci Sebelat National Park area (TNKS) to meet the electricity needs
of the community. With the availability of these water resources, it can be developed into a Micro
Power Plant or Mini Hydro.
The purpose of this primary energy utilization is to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel energy use
whose availability is starting to worry. Several alternative energy sources that are abundant in
Indonesia can be utilized without having to substitute the existing conventional energy values. It is
hoped that through the use of new and renewable energy can slowly reduce the priority of using
fossil fuel-based energy to further replace its role as a counterweight. The use of conventional
energy continues to be used, not diverted and even eliminated, but slowly led to changes in the
priority scale of its supply needs in remote areas.
The time for modern/big cities to change the paradigm to make new and renewabable energy a new
―lifestyle‖, given that for the sake of the environment in its role to reduce CO2 esmissions
