From The Star – Conserve Energy and Reduce Costs


Dateline 2011-09-20:

Energy-efficient appliances not only pare down electricity bills, they reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power generation too.

AT the height of the oil crisis in the 1970s, renewable energy and energy efficiency (EE) were touted as Malaysia’s fifth fuel. However, the discovery of substantial deposits of oil and natural gas in the 1980s relegated EE issues to the back burner in no time.

The promotion of EE was “renewed” in the 1990s by the Electricity and Gas Supply Department (EGSD) and the Ministry of Energy (now the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water, or KeTTHA). Some regulations on EE were drafted then but were not implemented due to “legal issues”.

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