The search for alternative sources of energy has continued for decades as Indonesia tries to reduce the dependence on oil. Even Indonesia, where oil still the number one export commodity, it expected to become a net import of oil by the year 2000. Industries and households therefore, are looking elsewhere to satisfy energy needs. As the price of oil has increased over the last five years, Indonesian industries are under pressure to switch to their country's "black gold" or more correctly; "black diamond": coal. Indonesia has total estimated reserve of 36 millions tons of coal, however, 58.7 % of the amount belongs to lignite coal (lower rank coal) whose calorific values between 3500 kcal/kg and 4600 kcal/kg. Since only Indonesian bituminous and sub-bituminous coal is exportable, it seems Indonesia have to rely on its lignite to meet its domestic energy demand in the near future. The main concern will be to seek appropriate technologies best suited for lignite and coal can only continue to occupy an important position in our energy supply system, if non-polluted and economical conversion are found to generate products which satisfy the need of the market for comfortable and easily handled energy. In order to open up that application, research and development (R&D) activities of coal utilization must be encouraged. Fluidized bed combustion with the ability to burn an extremely wide variety of fuels with varying moisture and ash content, and also it has the ability to overcome the environmental emission problem have been selected by the National Research Council (DRN) as one of the R&D activities in Clean Coal Technologies (CCT) in this regards, a small coal fired fluidized bed boiler was designed and constructed at Energy Technology Laboratory (UPT-LSDE), BPPT Teknologi, PUSPITEK, Serpong in coordination with Hamada Boiler. For the past years, research and development have been conducted with this boiler for combustion of various fuels such as rice husk, peat, many types of coals, paper sludge from papermill, slurry waste from petro-chemical, cocoshell, palm waste, corn cob waste, sugar cane waste. Any interested parties in Indonesia and/or from any countries are welcome to this facility to join the research activities with us. Please contact Hamada Boiler, Jakarta Tel. 0062-21-735-3167 Fax 0062-21-7388-3402 or E-mail: ENERGY AUDIT TEAM (Mobilized Energy Audit ) BPPT have been rendering its very unique service by conducting Energy Audit upon request of any companies. If your company desire to check energy balance of your factory, please do not hesitate to contact us. We, Hamada Boiler Jakarta, shall always coordinate with BPPT to come to your factory for the purpose.