Renewable Energy in Malaysia: Experience from Perlis

Abstract

Malaysia, like many developing countries relied on the use of cheap and readily available petroleum products for its energy use until the successive “oil-shock” in the early 1970s. Due to that matter,  Malaysia come out with new policy named “Five Fuel Policy” in which covers the renewable energy and energy efficiency. Feed-in tariff is one of the instruments that had been applied by companies and also individually in order to implement the renewable energy application in Perlis.This paper discusses the current situation of renewable energy in Perlis and the role of the Malaysian government and Non-Government Organization (NGOs) to promote and contribute to the development of renewable energy in Perlis. Descriptive open ended semi-structured interview sessions with selected respondent from government agencies and non-government agencies had been held regarding renewable energy in the state of Perlis. Findings show that Perlis has attractive energy potential such solar energy, biomass energy, wind energy and others and the government agencies also take important roles in promoting the importance of renewable towards local communities

Keyword: renewable, energy, Kyoto protocol,FiT ,Perlis.