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Industry Talk
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Multiplicator E.g for
new plants
Banks, Insurance ,
Companies
Benchmarking
Demo projects
Comparison of
Energy Indicators
Competitors
Best Practice
Information on technologies & new/EE technologies
Suppliers
The Company
Outsourcing
Utilities
Financing, DSM,
Contracting
Energy Audits, M & T,
Energy Management
ESCOs,
Consultants
Low rates, few takers
The LSS programme was more successful; many
developers applied for 1MWac to 50MWac sites
Environmental Schemes,
Kyoto Protocol
Customers
Authorities
Industrial
Associations
Training
Taxes, directives, laws , regulations, standards
Mandatory
Schemes
Voluntary
Agreements
Figure 2: Instruments for Energy Efficiency And Their Channels
Table 1:
Critical success factors for industrial
management
Money related factors
Profitability
Productivity
Stock market reaction
Cost-effectiveness, etc.
Customer-focused factors
Customer loyalty
Image (incl. environment), etc.
425 kW FiT Installation in Shah Alam done
by Ditrolic Solar.
Factors affecting
the core business
Product innovation and quality
Procurement
Process reliability
Outsourcing, etc.
Table 2:
Mandatory/Legal
Standards/labels
Groups of capable tools/instruments
Directives, regulations
Taxes, etc.
Voluntary
Long term agreements
Environmental schemes
(ISO 14000)
Benchmarking
(also awareness), etc.
Tools to identify, monitor,
evaluate
M&T
Energy management
Energy audits, etc.
Management-related
factors
Risk/quality management
Human resources (health,
security)
Policy and strategy
Information/Data
management, etc.
awareness oriented
Targeted information,
networking
Education and Training
Conferences, workshops,
campaigns, etc.
Service-oriented
Third-Party Financing/
contracting
Outsourcing
Demand-side management,
etc.
Others
Co-operative procurement
Tools to improve working
conditions, etc.
agement. What are the critical success factors (CSF) to
satisfy the crucial needs of the administration?
Quite some of this csF are relevant within the interaction
between the company and its stakeholders (see
Figure 1), and practical tools have to touch at least one
or more of these issues.
Tools/Instruments
Using our knowledge about how to address the industry’s
CSF and how to attract their attention, we can try
to identify useful tools and instruments to increase
industrial energy efficiency. Preferably these tools or
instruments should act via the company’s networks,
trying to integrate energy efficiency in their existing
day-to-day business relations. In Figure 2, such tools/
instruments are indicated, also showing which channels
might be used to reach the target group. In Table 2, these
tools/instruments are grouped according to their main
features. — @green
power
POINT
By Dato Ir Dr Ali Askar Sher
Mohamad
SolAR PV technology was
introduced in the country in
2006 using Suria 1000, through
Malaysia Building Integrated
Photovoltaic (MBIPV), which
in turn used Global Environment
Facility (GEF) via United
Nations Development Fund
(UNDP).
Although the plan was to introduce 1000kW
only, the final target exceeded 2000kW. Most
of these houses and commercial institutions
later opted for Feed-in Tariff (FiT).
FiT was introduced in December 2011
with a number of technologies including
solar PV, biomass, biogas and small hydro.
Unfortunately, the entire FiT was skewered
towards solar PV with extremely high rates
and few takers for the other technologies
which had rather low rates.
SEDA quickly brought the rates down,
with an annual reduction of 20 per cent for
new FiTs. The FiT programme for commercial
installations was discontinued in 2016,
and for residential premises in 2017. SEDA
proposed to the minister in 2015 to launch
two new programmes -- Net Energy Metering
(NEM) and Large Scale Solar (LSS).
Both programmes were launched in 2016.
The NEM was not very effective at first
because the units sold to the grid were counted
at displaced cost which was extremely low.
However, in January 2019, the units sold
to the grid were counted as one-to-one, i.e.
whatever exported to the grid will be minused
off as units imported by the utility.
This has resulted in many new installations.
One of the major hurdles for installation
of NEM are the problems created by the
utility including high fault current, requirements
for SCADA, as well as the issues
surrounding bidirectional meter. Even for
self-consumption, the utility is insisting on
SCADA, although SESB and other utilities do
not bother.
The LSS programme was more success-
ful; many developers applied for 1MWac to
50MWac sites.
However, not all were able to successfully
carry out the project. Many ran into problems
including land issues, as well as finance. The
last round for LSS3 saw the prices coming
down to about 17.77 sen/kWh to 23 sen/kWh
from the initial 40 sen/kWh for the first round.
For LSS4, we expect the prices to stabilise
at about 20 sen/kWh or slightly more.
LSS does not have too many issues with the
utility since we’re dealing with Grid Division
for plants with capacity of 30MWac or more.
For plants between 10MWac to 29MWac,
TNB Distribution has a list of requirements
that they need. It’s important that the utility
decides what the requirements are and be
transparent about it. No additional features
to be added later. — @green
Dato’ Ir. Dr. Ali Askar Sher Mohamad graduated
with a BSc (Electrical Engineering) from
Purdue University, West Lafayette, and a
Masters in Power Engineering from UNSW,
Sydney. He completed his PhD at UNITEN
on the technical impact of connecting large
scale solar PV plants to the utility network.
He has served the Malaysian power utility
TNB in various engineering and management
positions. He taught at UNITEN from 2009 to
2011, teaching renewable energy and power
systems subjects,while acting as a consultant
to carry out Grid connection and Feasibility
Studies for various renewable energy plants.
During this time, he was also appointed as the
Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Energy,
Green Technology and Water on RE grid connection
issues and related legislation.
LSS1 Project by UiTM Solar Power 50.