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Starting December, Malaysia's Clean Energy Aspirations Commence

Starting December, Malaysia's Clean Energy Aspirations Commence

The Breakfast Grille

November 30, 201146m 40s

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Show Notes


SEDA Malaysia CEO Badriyah Abdul Malek discusses:

- Qualifications for the role - experience brought to the table;
- Reasons SEDA missed June deadline;
- Achievability of increasing renewable energy from 1% to 5.5% of electricity supply by 2015;
- Whether job more urgent - Tenaga two straight quarters of losses;
- Reasons for target for clean energy production having been revised downwards;
- The lessons Malaysia has learnt from seeing other countries such as Spain - mistakes - clean energy programs (politics, corruption et al);
- Self-sustainability of FIT - the RE fund;
- Status of FiT guideline and regulations;
- Reasons for imposing RM10/kW for application fee;
- Reasons for cap to Renewable Energy production;
- Reasons for introducing a 5MW limit for solar PV - no limit - other RE technologies;
- Reasons why no FIT for solar thermal, wind and geothermal - nor for Sarawak, which governs itself in energy matters;
- Government soft loan 300 million ringgit - terms of repayment;
- How public may view SEDA finances - expenditures;
- KPIs - CEO re-appointment.

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