Reuters: Indonesia plans to form a new state company to take over geothermal energy activities in the Southeast Asian country, an official at state oil company Pertamina said on Thursday. Indonesia, dotted with hundreds of active and extinct volcanoes, has the potential to produce an estimated 27,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity from geothermal sources. However, the vast potential remains largely untapped because the high cost of geothermal energy makes the price of electricity …