By DayakDaily Team
KUCHING, March 13: Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) is exploring the production of biocoal as another green energy source for power plants in the State.
According to national news agency Bernama, SEDC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Husain stated that studies are currently being conducted on the feasibility of producing biocoal, which could become one of their long-term investments.
“Biocoal is actually manufactured using wood pellets together with biowaste especially from algae that can be mixed together and can be used to power the plant. This is something that we are still studying,” he was quoted as saying in the news report.
Abdul Aziz made these remarks to reporters after the launch of the SEDC Bazaar Ramadan here yesterday (March 12).
He went on to say that SEDC has been working on several joint ventures with Malaysian and international companies interested in developing facilities in Sarawak to produce new energy sources, particularly hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
“(We are) also in collaboration with other research agencies throughout the world. I mean we have companies coming from as far as Canada and we, of course, welcome people who would like to collaborate with us in these ventures,” he said.
The SEDC chairman also stated that SEDC, through its subsidiary SEDC Energy, is collaborating with Petronas’ subsidiary Petronas Technology Ventures Sdn Bhd to manufacture electrolysers.
In addition to several other joint ventures, Abdul Aziz highlighted that SEDC’s focus had been on finding solutions to reduce the current high cost of hydrogen production.
“We are looking at making sure that the cost of hydrogen can be actually reduced so that it can be available and people who own electric vehicles or own hydrogen or fuel cell cars will be able to benefit. The cost of (hydrogen) fuel will be less than the cost of fossil fuel,” he added. — DayakDaily
