Amar Siti Noradiah, Kamaludin Mahirah, Azlina A A, K V Zainuddin Muhammad Rias, Sulaiman Khairul Izzuddin
Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia.
Institute of Tropical Agriculture & Food Security, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Heliyon. 2024 Mar 16;10(6):e27981. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27981. eCollection 2024 Mar 30.
Malaysia needs to fully utilize its renewable energy resources to meet its goal of installed capacity of 31% of renewable energy in 2025 and 40% in 2035. In order to empower renewable energy sources, the government has established a fund known as the renewable energy fund (RE FUND). In Malaysia, most manufacturing sectors contribute to the RE FUND through their monthly electricity bills due to their electricity consumption exceeding 300kwh per month. As Malaysia's highest electricity consumer, the manufacturing sector needs government investment incentives to switch to renewable energy sources to generate electricity. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify attribute preferences of the manufacturing sector due to investing in renewable energy sources. The Choice Experiment method was employed where the Mixed Logit model was chosen to identify the willingness to pay for the manufacturing sectors based on their preferences among the four attributes: types of renewable energy, project location, annual reduction in GHG emissions, and RE FUND. The study results found that the manufacturing sector places the highest value on the project location, where they prefer to improve the project location from current condition to far location. This study can also help to achieve the Goal 7 in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), where investment in renewable energy sources can guarantee that all individuals obtain affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern electricity in 2030.
马来西亚需要充分利用其可再生能源资源，以实现到2025年可再生能源装机容量达到31%、到2035年达到40%的目标。为了增强可再生能源的能力，政府设立了一项名为可再生能源基金（RE FUND）的基金。在马来西亚，大多数制造业部门由于每月用电量超过300千瓦时，需通过每月电费为可再生能源基金做出贡献。作为马来西亚最大的电力消费群体，制造业需要政府的投资激励措施来转向使用可再生能源发电。因此，开展本研究以确定制造业部门在投资可再生能源方面的属性偏好。采用了选择实验方法，其中选择混合逻辑模型根据制造业部门在可再生能源类型、项目地点、温室气体排放量年度减少量和可再生能源基金这四个属性中的偏好来确定其支付意愿。研究结果发现，制造业部门对项目地点最为看重，他们更倾向于将项目地点从当前状况改善为偏远地点。本研究还有助于实现可持续发展目标（SDG）中的目标7，即到2030年对可再生能源的投资能够确保所有人都能获得负担得起、可靠、可持续和现代的电力。
