Naturally endowed with thousands of kilometres of rivers, abundant sunshine, a vibrant agricultural sector producing plenty of biomass and even the odd geothermal hotspot, Malaysia’s renewable energy (RE) segment has the ability to transform the country’s energy sector. According to the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (SEDA...
Driven by a growing industrial base and rising income levels, which are nudging up consumption levels, Malaysia’s electricity demand is expected to equal the OECD average by 2030. While the country has a comfortable supply and demand electricity buffer, with a total installed capacity of 24,257 MW compared to a peak demand of 17,316 MW in 2011,...
The long and storied history of Malaysia’s oil and gas sector has seen the country through its political and economic vicissitudes over the years, providing an economic crutch of export revenue in the lean times and giving rise to a national energy champion that is the country’s sole Fortune 500 Company in the boom years. But with the country’s...
As natural gas consumption growth in Asia continues to outstrip average global demand by a wide margin, Malaysia is making a strong play to not only secure its own domestic supply of the gas but to establish itself as a regional transportation and trading centre.
What is needed to encourage global storage and trading companies to use Malaysia as a base?
Malaysia is a multi-ethnic society of 29m split between the Malay Peninsula and the island of Borneo. With a per-capita GDP that has hovered around $10,000 for the past decade, the country is struggling to escape a “middle-income trap”
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