Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.
KUALA LUMPUR: The government will soon table the Energy Efficiency & Conservation Act (EECA) in the upcoming Parliamentary sitting, said the Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.
“The EECA bill has been in the works for many years, and we hope that it will catalyse commercial competitiveness while encouraging environmental stewardship for residential and industrial consumers alike,” he said in his speech at the Energy Transition Conference that’s organized by TNB today.
“It will require the biggest users of electricity to require them to do energy audits and higher requirements of a building of a certain size to do such energy (efficiency) audits. But for residential consumers they will not be required to do so,” Nik explained on the sidelines.
He said the result of recent electricity tariff reforms there’s already been companies which have taken their own initiative to take steps towards this.
Meanwhile he also noted that the energy transition of the country should be looked at from a wholesome manner and not only from the electric vehicle (EV) point of view.
“It should also take into account public transport, personal mobility vehicles and logistics,” he said.
He also noted of the reducing prices of EV which makes it more affordable now.
