STUDY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY POTENTIAL IN MALAYSIA

Abstract

Malaysia has many renewable energy sources that can be
developed such as solar, wind, biomass, hydro,
geothermal and tidal wave. However, it is not yet widely
developed. Since, energy is important, a national center
for renewable energy resources database should be setup
to bring together designers, engineers, architects and
policy makers to use the actual data for implementing
renewable energy projects. The objective of this study is
to determine the most suitable renewable energy
generation to be implemented in Malaysia from four
obvious options available which are solar, wind, biomass
and tidal wave. A study has been conducted in several
contributing factors namely geographical distribution,
technology involved and economic analysis. The analysis
has been done by gathering the related information and
data from previous studies as well as and visits to sites
and related authorities. The result of these analysis shows
that biomass energy generation has the most encouraging
potential to be developed in Malaysia as shown by
evidences from the comparative study being made in this
paper.