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Fakulti Sains Dan Teknologi (FST) : OUMH2103 English For Science and Technical Purposes
Fakulti Sains Dan Teknologi (FST) : OUMH2103 English For Science and Technical Purposes
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In the 1970s, a very serious energy crisis gave awareness to the world community
sources that can be replaced throughout human life. Energy-producing technologies from
sources such as sunlight, wind, waves and biomass have been enjoyed by many countries
based on their capabilities, expertise and finance. Due to the huge demand for energy
based on economic growth and the growing number of people, the Malaysian government
is considering how to produce alternative energy to existing energy without any impact
Recognizing this fact, the Malaysian government through the Eighth Malaysia
Plan, announced renewable energy as the fifth fuel in five new fuel strategies in the
energy supply mix. It is targeted that REs will contribute 5% of the country's total
electricity demand to 2005, at the end of the Eighth Malaysia Plan period. In the Tenth
Malaysia Plan, renewable energy targets are expected to supply 985 MW by 2015,
According to Ahmad Hadri Haris (2009) as the National Project leader, in the
Ninth Malaysia Plan (2006-2010) it is expected that Peninsular Malaysia will produce
300 MW and 50 MW of Renewable Energy in the state of Sabah. With this target,
persistent efforts are being undertaken to promote the use of Renewable Energy sources,
such as biomass, biogas, solar energy and mini hydro, for power generation. Solar energy
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is another important choice, especially for the supply of electricity in rural areas and for
Overall, I agree with the truth given. This is because non-renewable resources
cannot cope with the consumption of the population within the next 20 to 30 years due to
the exhaustion of resources such as oil, coal and so on. For security measures, the
rates as low as may be available for conventional energy facilities. In addition to having
higher transaction costs, financial institutions are generally unfamiliar with the new
technologies and likely to perceive them as risky, so that they may lend money at higher
rates. High financing costs are especially significant to the competitive position of
renewables, since renewables generally require higher initial investments than fossil fuel
plants, even though they have lower operating costs. It found that financing costs can
greatly affect the price and competitiveness for solar panels could result in solar
generation prices as low as 15.2sen/kWh for publicly owned utilities and as high as
43.1sen/kWh for a private developer using project financing. In Malaysia there are
projects on the use of renewable energy sources i.e. solar energy. Computation of ROI
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and breakeven is done to ensure the use of solar panel is very useful if investment is
implemented. The profit gained can be divided into two, namely, to user of solar panel
and solar panel investors. With such calculations it is able to educate investors to think
permit to claim the green-ness of a given energy source, with each REC certifying the
can then be useful for a company, either to meet its own sustainability goals, or to meet
RECs sound complicated and somewhat counterintuitive, and the whole idea of
buying and selling greenness is a bit unsettling. That leads many people to assume that
the system must be a scam a bunch of paper shuffling and double counting,
It's an understandable reaction, but in reality, the system of RECs is quite well-
established and tightly monitored. There are regional tracking organizations that give
each REC a unique identifying number; every transaction involving the REC must be
benefits do not get double counted, that no one claims environmental benefits they are
not due, and that RECs stay retired when they are retired.
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As consumers, its important that stay informed to read a companys marketing
claims about its renewable-energy commitments. In doing so, it deprives the regions
communities many of the jobs and environmental benefits that new renewable
replace dirty energies like coal, natural gas, and nuclear. At the same time, it needs
companies to demand renewable energy as well so that utilities will transition to cleaner
sources of power like wind and solar. Bundled RECs, in the short term, can help quantify
demand for renewable energy. In the long term, as more and more companies shift to
sourcing 100% renewable energy directly, the RECs will no longer be needed.
Many of the benefits of renewables described earlier in this primer are public
benefits that accrue to everyone what economists call "public goods." For example, those
who choose renewables reduce pollution for everyone and provide an environmental
benefit to the public at large. A customer who is willing to pay more for electricity from
renewables still has to breathe the same air as the neighbor who might choose not to pay
more. Public goods do not motivate everyone who benefits to pay for them, if they can
Employment, fuel diversity, price stability, and other indirect economic benefits of
renewables also accrue to society as a whole. For example, for a large industrial
customer, it may make more sense to risk moving to another region in response to
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increases in fuel prices rather than pay more for renewables to stabilize regional prices.
While this strategy may benefit the individual firm, it is likely to hurt the region's long-
term economic competitiveness. In the same way, firms that can pass on increases in
energy costs to customers may also lack an incentive to diversify fuel sources, even
though investment in renewables would stabilize prices over the longer term.
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REFERENCES
Ahmad Hadri Haris, (2009). Feed-in Tariff (FiT): Driving Forward Green Technologies
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Md. Baharuddin Abdul Rahman, Khairul Azhar Mat Daud, Kamaruzaman Jusoff, Nik
Azida Abd. Ghani. (2009). Project based learning (PjBL) practices at Politeknik
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UiTM, Shah Alam ( 2010). Photovoltaic Monitoring Centre (PVMC), Shah Alam.
Kevin Porter, Open Access Transmission and Renewable Energy Technologies, Topical
Issues Brief, National Renewable Energy Lab, NREL/SP-460-21427, September
1996.
Steven Stoft, Carrie Webber and Ryan Wiser, Transmission Pricing and Renewables:
Issues, Options and Recommendations, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, LBNL-
39845, May 1997, online at www.lbl.gov.
Farhar, ibid. For up-to-date information on green markets, also see the Green Power
Network web site: www.eren.doe.gov/greenpower/.