Tap the sun for energy, climate expert tells Malaysia

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00:00Malaysia trails behind even Haiti in the proportion of renewable energy in its power mix,

00:06a gap that should spur the country to harness more solar energy, according to a climate expert.

00:12Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate

00:16Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, said he found it slightly striking

00:21that solar energy does not have greater prominence. There's huge potential here, I think,

00:27in Malaysia to create more of your electricity and more of your energy from renewables,

00:32particularly solar. Solar energy is the cheapest form of energy around the world. You could do a

00:38lot more of that in Malaysia. It would benefit your economy because it's lower cost energy,

00:43lower cost for businesses, lower cost for households. According to the latest data from the

00:48International Renewable Energy Agency, renewables account for 20% of Haiti's energy mix compared

00:54with roughly 18% for Malaysia. Ward attributed Malaysia's underperformance partly to its growing

01:00reliance on Indonesian coal. In 2023, Malaysia imported US$5.12 billion worth of coal briquettes,

01:08making it the seventh-largest coal importer globally, according to the Observatory of Economic

01:13Complexity. Indonesia supplies 58% of all coal imports. Ward said solar energy could help insulate

01:20Malaysia from the risks tied to global oil prices and geopolitical shifts that have mostly been driven

01:25by Donald Trump's return to the White House. It's a secure, secure form of electricity. You're not

01:32reliant on imports to generate your electricity. It will be Malaysian sun that powers your economy then.

01:40So I would hope that Malaysia at least explores this because I think the economics are very much more

01:46favourable than most other sources of electricity in the manner. And because of Malaysia's location,

01:52great potential for it to generate large amounts of electricity.

01:56I'm Donis Rajarrizza, FMT.

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