JASIN: The government, via the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC), aims to raise its net energy metering (NEM) programme output to 300 megawatts (MW) this year.
Mestecc Minister Yeo Bee Yin said last year, the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (Seda) approved 102MW under the NEM programme, adding that the 300MW target can be achieved through the new NEM policy implemented last year.
“Under the new NEM policy, we are using a ‘one-on-one’ offset basis, whereby if the energy generated is purchased at 50 sen, it is sold at 50 sen, and this worthwhile investment saw a high take up rate which led to generation of 102MW in clean energy last year.
“This is 3.7 times more than what was achieved between 20162018, which was only 27.8MW,” she told a press conference after launching the Rooftop Solar PV System project by the Xinyi Group in Lipa Kajang here yesterday.
Also present were Melaka Housing, Local Government, Environment and Green Technology exco Datuk Tey Kok Kiew, Seda chief executive officer Dr Sanjayan Velautham and Xinyi Malaysia managing director Datuk Liu Xiao Rong.
Under the NEM programme, energy produced by the solar photovoltaic (PV) system is first utilised and any excess can be sold to Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB). – Bernama
