COVER FEATURE
SEDA Malaysia’s Human
Capacity Development
Programme For the
Renewable Energy Industry
By Edisham Mohd Sukor and Ir. Ali Askar Sher Mohamad
T
he Sustainable Energ y Development
Authority (SEDA) has been charged with
the development of renewable energy (RE)
in the country through the National Renewable
Energy Policy and Action Plan (NREPAP). Apart
from implementation of the Feed-in-Tariff
(FiT) Schedule, the NREPAP recognized the
importance of developing soft infrastructure
to sustain the renewable energy growth in the
country. Under Thrust 3 of NREPAP, there is a
need to intensify human capital development in
the Renewable Energy (RE) industry. Therefore,
SEDA is taking the lead role in developing human
capital to fill the gap in local competency for RE
technology. This is to ensure that RE installations
in Malaysia are designed, constructed, operated
and maintained, by trained and competent
engineers and technicians to international
quality and safety standards. With the help
of Performance Management Delivery Unit
(PEMANDU)’s Strategic Reform Initiatives
(SRI), one of the six key initiatives under
the Government’s Economic Transformation
Programme (ETP), SEDA has embarked on
a programme to build up the capacity and
competency of the local workforce in the RE
industry. The training courses offered by SEDA
Malaysia are listed below:
SEDA Malaysia
Grid Connected
Solar Photovoltaic
(GCPV) Systems
Design Course
SEDA Malay sia
implemented
the Institute for
Sustainable Power
Q u a l i t y (I S P Q)
G r i d - C o nn e c t e d
Solar PV course in
2012. The course
was originally
introduced into the country by the Malaysian
Building Integrated Photovoltaic (MBIPV) Project
under Pusat Tenaga Malaysia in 2007.
SEDA Malaysia’s ISPQ license expired in
March 2013 and the license holder covering Asia
Pacific ceased operation due to low demand.
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