{"id":5812,"date":"2024-05-15T15:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T07:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/?p=5812"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T07:30:50","slug":"sabah-approves-key-energy-enactments-boosting-otec-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/sabah-approves-key-energy-enactments-boosting-otec-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabah Approves Key Energy Enactments, Boosting OTEC Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The State Legislative Assembly of Sabah approved the new Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion<\/a> (OTEC) Enactment 2024 and Energy Commission of Sabah Enactment (Amendment No. 2) 2024<\/a> on 25 April 2024.<\/p>\n

Efforts by ASM were pivotal in achieving this milestone. The ASM Vice-President also serves as the Research Fellow and Founding Director of UTM Ocean Thermal Energy Centre<\/a> Professor, Dato’ Ir Dr A. Bakar Jaafar FASc<\/a> collectively contributed to the success, supported by the ASM Sabah Chapter led by Dr Rahimatsah Amat FASc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following a directive from the then MOSTI Deputy Minister, Datuk Arthur Joseph Kurup<\/a>, to focus on state renewable energy (RE) initiatives, a series of collaborative efforts were set in motion. These included engaging with the Energy Commission of Sabah<\/a> (ECoS) to facilitate productive discussions. The heavy involvement of ECoS evolved after a special briefing by Professor Dato’ Ir Dr A. Bakar Jaafar on the potential of OTEC in Sabah at a meeting on 16 May 2023 at the Ministry of Investment, Trade & Industry (MITI) Co-Chaired by MITI<\/a> Deputy Minister YB Liew Chin Tong<\/a> and YB Ginger Phoong Jin Zhe<\/a>, Minister of Industrial, Development & Entrepreneurship of Sabah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, at the ASM Science, Technology, Innovation, Policy Advisory Committee (STIPAC), a paper by Professor Dato’ Ir Dr A. Bakar Jaafar advocating for establishing an Ocean Thermal Energy Nasional Berhad (OTENAS) was endorsed. This strategic move aims to pre-empt issues similar to those encountered with the Petroleum Development Act<\/a> (PDA) concerning territorial waters, underscoring Sabah’s commitment to sustainable energy solutions.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”5813″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” title=”A simple diagram of an open-cycle ocean thermal energy conversion system.”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabah Legislative Assembly approved the OTEC Enactment 2024 and Energy Commission of Sabah Enactment 2024, with pivotal contributions from ASM and key experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1177],"tags":[284,1183,1181,1182,291],"class_list":["post-5812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-may-2024","tag-asm-expert-network","tag-energy-commission-of-sabah-enactment-2024","tag-ocean-thermal-energy-conversion","tag-otec","tag-sabah"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/otec-sabah-state-legislative-assembly.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajCBQ-1vK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions\/5815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}