“The country has the necessary solar eco-system to obtain a market share of the growing solar power business in the region. Azman said the Malaysian Solar PV Roadmap 2030 would be launched at the end of the year to drive the country’s solar PV industry forward. According to Azman, Malaysia, under the National Renewable Energy Policy and Action Plan, aims to achieve 2,080 MW of renewable energy by 2020. “The government through the Economic Transformation Programme aims to achieve 1,250 MW solar power capacity to be connected to the grid by 2020,” he added. “In 2016, we attracted seven more solar manufacturing projects and 83 renewable energy projects in the solar industry worth RM1.77bil and RM0.65bil respectively,” he said.

Source: The Star March 15, 2017 00:03 UTC