PETALING JAYA (Sept 8): Malaysia is looking at ways to provide greater visibility into electricity generation capacity planning following the cessation of public disclosure of electricity supply planning reports.

Public release of the reports stopped due to the increasingly dynamic nature of the power sector, which now requires the Planning and Implementation Committee for Electricity Supply and Tariff to revisit its projections twice a year, said Siti Safinah Salleh, chief executive of the Energy Commission.

“We’ve seen the numbers change … If we publish and then [after] another six months we publish it again, it would create a lot more uncertainty,” Safinah told the press on Tuesday. “We are looking at ways to actually address that.”

The last iteration publicly released was JPPPET 2020 (2021-2039), published in March 2021. 

The committee under the Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation is responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing Malaysia's long-term electricity supply.

The reports would disclose current and projected generation fuel mix, capacity and demand as well as projected plant-ups and retirements — used to serve as key planning assumptions for the industry, providing visibility for projected future electricity demand and generation requirements.