A newly revised ministerial regulation makes installing rooftop solar panels at residential homes even less attractive for local users than it was before, while it saddles future adopters of clean energy technology with complicated bureaucratic procedures.

STATE-OWNED electricity firm PLN has confirmed that it has only been able to sign power purchase agreements for 46 renewable energy projects with total capacity of 257.62 megawatts on Wednesday instead of the previously stated figure of 53 projects, as more companies decided to pull out.