"About 80 per cent of our projects are from the commercial sector, including solar farms, industrial properties and commercial buildings with Green Building Index certificates. "Some 20 per cent of our projects are from the residential segment," he says.Demand for solar power comes mainly from the Klang Valley, Johor, Penang and Kedah. "The federal government's goal is to produce about 1.5GWp of solar energy by the end of 2020. The 1.5GWp of solar energy is equivalent to the daily energy usage of 300,000 houses," he says.Ko is also eyeing the regional market. "The consumption of solar power is also growing in other Asean countries like the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam, where they have recently launched their respective feed-in tariff programmes.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 26, 2016 10:41 UTC