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.

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