MALAYSIA: National Energy Efficiency Action Plan (NEEAP)

Meta Data
Title in national language: 
Pelan Tindakan Kecekapan Tenaga Negara
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2015
Effective Start Year: 
2016
Effective End Year: 
2025
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Plan/Strategy
Economic Sector: 
Energy, Power, Industry, Transport, Building, Multi-Sector, Other
Energy Types: 
Power, Renewable, Other
Issued by: 
Minister of Energy, Green Technologies and Water
File: 
Overall Summary: 
The Malaysia Energy Efficiency Action Plan is focused to tackle issues pertaining to energy supply by managing demand efficiently. The Plan prescribes a path towards improving energy efficiency by pursuing the implementation of measures that are considered as “harvesting the low hanging fruits”, as they are viable for the nation as well as the end users. The plan is built upon the experiences and knowledge from past programmes and projects and provides for the instruments for a successful implementation of energy efficiency strategies in the country for a period of 10 years.
Efficiency
EE priorities: 
Promote energy efficiency to ensure productive use of energy and minimise waste in order to contribute to sustainable development and increased welfare and competitiveness. ---The need to drive its economic growth while maintaining productivity and competitiveness and also the compelling need to rationalise its energy subsidies have made energy efficiency as one of the key energy policy instrument for Malaysia.
EE targets: 
The effective and efficient implementation of the Malaysia Energy Efficiency Action Plan, supported with sufficient resources, will be able to save 50,594 GWh of electricity over the plan period against a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario. The corresponding electricity demand growth reduction at the end of the plan is 6.0%.
EE action plans: 
5 main thrusts [...] will drive the nation towards a sustainable energy path: Thrust 1: Establish an overall long-term national plan for energy efficiency: This plan will create the road map for energy efficiency for the next 10 years. The plan will be named as The Malaysia Energy Efficiency Action Plan; Thrust 2: Strengthen Implementation Capacity to Promote Energy Efficiency: A dedicated project team need to be established in MEGTW to implement the plan; Thrust 3: Create adequate and sustainable funding mechanism for energy efficiency: [...] The necessary funding is envisaged to be used for kick starting e.g. through incentive rebates, the implementation of energy efficiency initiatives and mitigating the economic barriers to a wide spread uptake of energy efficiency; Thrust 4: Implement Energy Efficiency Programmes; and Thrust 5: Enable commercial finance institutions to support energy efficiency.---Necessary incentives are given to facilitate a market transformation towards energy efficiency technologies.---Energy efficient technologies will be made available in the domestic market, by creating a market push through incentives and regulation for suppliers, as well as a market pull from the consumers by energy efficiency initiatives.---Action 1: Establishing Malaysia Energy Efficiency Action Plan Project Team [...] to implement [...] the Malaysia Energy Efficiency Action Plan [...].---Action 2: Funding for energy efficiency, which will provide the budget for incentives for energy efficiency initiatives and administrative costs for the project team as well as related activities undertaken by other institutions.---Action 3: Government led initiatives, will pioneer the energy efficiency implementation, by getting government institutions and government link companies (GLC) to set the example for efficient energy use.---Action 4: Capacity Building, to educate and train students and professionals in energy efficiency in order to create a mass of knowledgeable professionals to implement energy efficiency.---Action 5: Research, development and innovation, to upgrade the understanding of energy efficiency and to upgrade technologies and processes. The research and development will be directed towards development of the manufacturing industry [...].
EE public awareness/promotional programmes: 
Action 4: Capacity Building, to educate and train students and professionals in energy efficiency in order to create a mass of knowledgeable professionals to implement energy efficiency.
Environment
GHG emissions reduction targets: 
The total reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over the plan period is projected to be 40 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. A total reduction of 96 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent will be achieved over the lifetime of the energy-efficient technologies [...].
Technology
Clean energy technology priorities: 
Action 5: Research, development and innovation, to upgrade the understanding of energy efficiency and to upgrade technologies and processes. The research and development will be directed towards development of the manufacturing industry [...].
R&D energy efficiency: 
Action 5: Research, development and innovation, to upgrade the understanding of energy efficiency and to upgrade technologies and processes. The research and development will be directed towards development of the manufacturing industry [...].