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Greening the Future: Biomass To Energy
4IR Readiness in Education
December 2021
29 September 2021 | via Online
MIGHT continues to provide support through strategic facilitations in the area of biomass with Energy, Maritime and Oil & Gas (EMOG) Strategy Group ,Universiti Malaya, UNITEN, TNB Energy Services and Kulim Berhad. The role of multiple Renewable Energy is significant whereby Malaysia aims to achieve 31% compliance by 2025 and 40% by 2035, from the 20% by 2025 target set in 2019/20 with the absence of new coal power plants. This is in line with Malaysia’s aspiration in achieving net carbon neutral by 2040. As such, alternatives to coal & gas are crucial especially in addressing current coal deficit issues and the transition towards the phasing out of coal. Biomass has enormous potential in the area of Renewable Energy and is a promising candidate in the New Energy Policy currently being formulated . A preliminary stakeholder's engagement was conducted as an introduction and two-way communication among the palm oil millers. The awareness engagement was conducted for the establishment e ort of the palm oil biomass hub which was conducted in early December 2021. The session received active participation and positive feedback from the participants on the topic of biomass hub discussion. Among the topics covered were the risk involved related to business model , capital costs, and feedstock source and feedstock supply.
2021 marks an important milestone in this critical study jointly conducted by MIGHT and UTM for the Ministry of Higher Education to gauge and assess the level of 4IR Readiness. Next, collaboration with both ministries continue as the Study move towards developing strategies and action plans in addressing the gaps and increasing the readiness of these institutions. Two sets of 2-day Foresight workshops were held in achieving this goal, harvesting strategies from the scenarios archetypes. Given the challenges faced by these institutions in addressing adversity in online learning due to COVID-19, getting responses were tricky but with the facilitation and endless cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MOE & MOHE), enough responses were obtained to proceed with the Analyses. Finally, a long series of engagements were organised to ensure the strategies and action plans that were developed and refined are in tune with the stakeholders and address the situations at hand.
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