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Within weeks of each other, two of Southeast Asia’s largest state utilities opened the region’s biggest solar tenders to date. Malaysia’s LSS6 and Indonesia’s Mentari Nusantara I are comparable in ambition and timeline, but they differ on one design choice that matters more than either headline capacity number: whether storage is part of the procurement […]
Founder Group Limited, a NASDAQ-listed, Malaysia-headquartered EPCC (engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning) provider, has confirmed that its subsidiary Founder Energy Sdn. Bhd. is actively tendering for packages under LSS6, Malaysia’s largest-ever utility-scale solar tender. The announcement is a useful marker for anyone tracking who the real players will be as LSS6 packages get awarded. LSS6 […]
China’s Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration announced in January that the VAT export rebate for battery products will be cut from 9% to 6% between April 1 and December 31, 2026, before being eliminated entirely from January 1, 2027. The change directly affects the cost base of every Chinese battery cell and system […]
Malaysia’s Automatic Fuel Adjustment (AFA) mechanism is meant to pass through fluctuating fuel costs to electricity tariffs in a predictable, transparent way. But the way the current 600 kWh threshold is structured creates a distortion that goes against that intent. The problem, in plain terms A household consuming exactly 600 kWh in a month is […]
Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) is putting RM43 billion (roughly US$10.8 billion) behind a grid modernisation plan, part of a wider strategy Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof outlined at the Energy Transition Conference 2026. The plan pairs grid overhaul spending with a mandate that all future large-scale solar projects include battery storage, tying two separate investment […]
The Corporate Renewable Energy Supply Scheme (CRESS) was designed to let corporate buyers procure renewable power directly from generators, and it arrived with real policy weight behind it. On paper, it should be one of the more straightforward routes for large energy users to secure clean power in Malaysia. In practice, uptake has been slower […]