successor industries that save electricity , provide it differently , and could displace the old model .
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Since 2012 , prices for installed photovoltaic solar modules and lithium-ion battery packs fell respectively by about 31 % and 40 %. New solar power now often beats even power made from coal , nuclear energy , or inexpensive American natural gas .
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance projects that by 2030 , global fossil-fueled and nuclear growth will halve , not counting their bigger retirements , while non-hydro renewable growth will triple .
Malaysia - National Biomass Strategy 2020
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First generation bioethanol and bio-based chemicals – using food crops such as sugarcane , cassava or corn as feedstock – are already produced on a commercial scale today , at plants such as the 400,000-tonne ethanol plant and 100,000-tonne lactic acid plant in Thailand based on cassava and sugarcane feedstock , or similar ethanol plants in Brazil based on sugarcane feedstock .
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In contrast to these existing technologies that use food biomass as inputs , emerging second generation technologies are exploring the use of non-food , lignocellulosic biomass ( e . g . forest and agricultural residues ). The term lignocellulosic biomass refers to the main building blocks of plant matter : lignin , cellulose and hemicellulose .
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The National Biomass Strategy ( NBS ) 2020 could translate into an incremental RM30 billion in GNI and an additional 66,000 new jobs by 2020 .
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The outlook is positive . The NBS has looked into the availability and cost of acquiring oil palm biomass in Malaysia and found that 25 million tonnes of biomass could potentially be mobilised across Malaysia at competitive cost today .
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An additional five million tonnes could move to higher value uses by 2020 . International players are both aware and interested in Malaysia .
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Appropriate technology to facilitate the opportunity is being developed : Biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass are expected to reach commercial scale around 2015 , bio-based chemicals between 2015 and 2020 . Malaysian biomass owners have the opportunity to use their biomass to participate in additional downstream value creation , instead of simply supplying it to the open market .
Malaysia ’ s Biodiesel Programme – Ministry of Plantations Industries & Commodities Media Statement
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The Malaysian Government on May 27 , 2016 agreed to strengthen the implementation of the Biodiesel Programme by increasing the blend for the transport sector to B10 ( blending of 10 % palm methyl ester with 90 % petroleum diesel ).
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The biodiesel programme was first introduced through the B5 Programme ( blending of 5 % palm methyl ester with 95 % petroleum diesel ) in June 2011 for the transport sector in phases and completed in March 2014 in Peninsular Malaysia .
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The implementation of the B10 programme for the transport sector and the B7 Programme for the industrial sector is expected to contribute to annual consumption of 709,000 tonnes of crude palm oil domestically .
Renewable Energy - International Renewable Energy Agency
● ● A boom in solar and wind power jobs in the US led the way to a global increase in renewable energy employment to more than eight million people in 2015 .
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