Malaysia's Seda revises quota for renewable energy sources

Malaysia's Sustainable Energy Development Authority will be revising downwards the quota for all renewable energy sources for the remaining of this year.

Seda is the entity empowered with the licensing of solar power plants.

The revision is mainly because the Feed-In Tariff system for RE will be launched on Dec 1 and not Sept 1 as originally scheduled, reports The Star. Tentatively, the combined quota for renewable energy for 2011 is 111MW for all RE technology. The original plan is to offer 219 MW this year.

“We’re still looking at the numbers. It could be about 100MW this year and 200MW for next,” said Badriyah Abdul Malek, the Energy, Green Technology and Water Ministry’s under-secretary.

Meanwhile, consumers would be paying the 1% levy to cover cost associated with the FiT scheme for RE from December.

Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Seri Peter Chinsaid the 1% levy was expected to rake in about RM300 milionl a year to facilitate the implementation of FiT. Seda had been given a grant of RM189mil to kick-start the FiT.

Only households consuming 300kWh a month will be affected by the RE levy. In total, 4.4 million households or 75% of Malaysians will not be affected.

Tan Sri Dr Fong Chan Onn has been appointed Seda chairman.

Photo from Bikyamasr.com

Also Read

Carbon market for Asia-Pacific region pushed

India’s MNRE clarifies coverage of ALMM order

Since you're here...

...there are many ways you can work with us to advertise your company and connect to your customers. Our team can help you dight and create an advertising campaign, in print and digital, on this website and in print magazine.

We can also organize a real life or digital event for you and find thought leader speakers as well as industry leaders, who could be your potential partners, to join the event. We also run some awards programmes which give you an opportunity to be recognized for your achievements during the year and you can join this as a participant or a sponsor.

Let us help you drive your business forward with a good partnership!

I want to download the media kit