SEDA Malaysia Open Day (Central Region) for FiAH Solar FiT Holder

SEDA Malaysia Open Day (Central Region)

Venue : Berjaya Times Square Hotel , Kuala Lumpur Date : 20 October 2013

SEDA Malaysia Meets Successful Applicants of Solar Photovoltaic (PV) for Individuals from the Central Region

Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (SEDA Malaysia) today holds a dialogue with 350 Feed-in Approval Holders (FiAHs) from the central region to update them on the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) mechanism and its new requirements as well as provide a platform to address any concerns to FiT and other related matters.

Since the implementation of FiT, SEDA Malaysia have approved a total of 2,628 applications with a total installed capacity of 484.03MW and 655 projects have commenced operation with a total installed capacity of 118.19MW. It has been observed that Solar PV has also shown a steady growth in Malaysia. Until 30th September 2013, Solar PV shown the highest percentage for approved applications; 39.72% or 192.26MW of installed capacity compared to bio mass with 152.49 MW or 31.5%; while small hydro and biogas made up the balance of 23.77% (115.05MW) and  5.01% ( 24.23MW) respectively.

According to YBhg Datin Badriyah Ab. Malek, CEO of SEDA Malaysia, since the launched of the Solar Home Rooftop Programme on 24th September 2012, more individuals have participated in the FiT programme. To date SEDA Malaysia has approved 2,279 applications for the individuals with a total capacity of 24.43MW of which 592 applications with an installed capacity of 8.98MW have commenced operation. “We released 1,500 kW of solar PV quota individuals on September 18 2013 and the response received was overwhelming. The quota was all gone within an hour” said Datin Badriyah. SEDA Malaysia will not release any more solar PV quota for this year because of the need to ensure all approved applicants can achieve commercial operation before December 31, 2013. This is important as the consequence of such failure implied a penalty of degression imposed on current FiT rates secured by the FiAHs. The degression rate imposed on individuals is 8% whilst for non-individuals, it is 20%.

Datin Badriyah also reiterated the importance of the public’s contribution to the Renewable Energy (RE) Fund which is an important step taken by the Government to support the FiT programme. Currently electricity consumers contribute 1% of their monthly electricity bill to the RE Fund; however this does not include those domestic consumers whose consumption of electricity is less than 300kWh (equivalent to RM77) per month. Malaysians need to embrace this step in all seriousness because the RE Fund is vital to ensure the sustainable growth of the renewable energy which has been identified as the alternative source of energy for the country in our effort to reduce the country’s over reliance on fossil fuel.

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