Malaysia installed 32MW solar under FiTs in 2016

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This brings its cumulative installed solar capacity under the FiT regime to 294.85MW. Flickr: Shubert Clencia

Malaysia installed 31.78MW of solar PV under its Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) scheme last year.

This brings its cumulative installed solar capacity under the FiT regime to 294.85MW. Also under FiTs, the nation’s cumulative renewable energy capacity has reached 458MW.

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Solar installations have declined each year from its 106.5MW peak in 2013.

Last week, the Energy Commission of Malaysia (EC) issued a Request for Proposal document hoping to auction up to 460MWac of large-scale solar capacity. Under EC’s second competitive bidding programme, it hopes to awards projects of 1-30MW capacity to make up a total of 360MW in Peninsular Malaysia and 100MW in Sabah and Labuan in the East.

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