{"id":8632,"date":"2019-07-23T07:11:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dual.seda.gov.my\/portal_dual\/2019\/07\/solar-industry-can-generate-more-jobs-in-malaysia-says-minister\/"},"modified":"2019-07-23T07:11:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:11:18","slug":"solar-industry-can-generate-more-jobs-in-malaysia-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/solar-industry-can-generate-more-jobs-in-malaysia-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar industry can generate more jobs in Malaysia, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SHAH ALAM, July 23<\/strong> \u2014 The\u00a0Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC) is confident that the solar industry will be able to create more jobs\u00a0in the country.Minister Yeo Bee Yin said more than 54,300 Malaysians have been working in related fields in the industry since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn line with the government\u2019s aim to provide sustainable solar energy, we have been creating jobs in the industry,&#8221; she told reporters after attending the launch of \u201cMalaysia&#8217;s Largest Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Project\u201d under the net energy metering (NEM) scheme by Goodyear Malaysia Bhd (Goodyear).<\/p>\n<p>Also present was Ramon Le, Goodyear\u00a0Tire\u00a0and Rubber Company\u2019s director of Manufacturing Operation, Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Yeo said currently, the solar industry is not only focused on the installation of solar panels on commercial buildings, but also on factory premises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been done by Goodyear, who\u00a0had installed solar panels on its\u00a0factory premises as a step towards reducing its\u00a0carbon footprint\u00a0as well as ensuring a more environmentally-friendly future.\u201cIt will also help the company to reduce electricity consumption and cut down its\u00a0electricity bills,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Le said Goodyear had installed 6,680 solar panels, which are connected to six low voltage substations capable of generating\u00a02.5 megawatts not only for the manufacturing plant, but also for the office building\u00a0and the warehouse.He said the panels were\u00a0made from\u00a0375W Bifacial Monocrystalline\u00a0Perc\u00a0Double Glass Solar Modules,\u00a0 capable of reducing\u00a01.98 million kilogrammes in\u00a0carbon emissions annually for 25 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NEM scheme is a solar PV initiative by MESTECC to encourage Malaysia\u2019s renewable energy uptake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaymail.com\/news\/malaysia\/2019\/07\/23\/solar-industry-can-generate-more-jobs-in-malaysia-says-minister\/1774175\">The Malay Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHAH ALAM, July 23 \u2014 The\u00a0Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC) is confident that the solar industry will be able to create more jobs\u00a0in the country.Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seda.gov.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}