Green Technology Annual Report

2019 Highlights To date NEA has identified and recognised 34 organisations with 27 of them went on to win at the prestigious ASEAN Energy Awards showcasing their best practises and positioned Malaysia as the regional player in the area of sustainable energy. This is indeed encouraging, as it demonstrates the growing commitment and confidence of businesses and institutions in Malaysia in adopting sustainable practices in their operations as this would enable Malaysia to achieve its 20% RE generation capacity mix by 2025 from just 2% in 2016 and contribute towards the country’s climate commitment under the Paris Agreement, in which Malaysia has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions per GDP by 45% in 2030. NEA2019 Awards dinner was graced by YB Yeo Bee Yin, Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment & Climate Change and presented 11 awards for Category 1 (Energy Efficiency) and 4 awards for Category 2 (Renewable Energy). In addition to this and upon strong recommendation by NEA panel of judges and Technical Committee, Merit Awards was presented to 5 companies due the competitiveness of the category and good quality report submissions on having scored more than 75% . Other guest includes key industry stakeholders such as Malaysia Green Building Council (MGBC) and Malaysia Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (MASHRAE) including association & chambers such as Federation of Malaysian Manufacturing (FMM), Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia (PAM). Winners list of NEA 2019 and AEA 2019 can be referred in the appendix on page 143. More information at www.nationalenergyaward.com.my. 84 MALAYSIAN GREEN TECHNOLOGY & CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE ANNUAL REPORT 2019