Overcoming barriers through policy advocacy & investment promotion:the case of ocean thermal energy-driven development in Malaysia

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Jaafar, Abu Bakar
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	There are numerous barriers to anything new, the like of ocean thermal energy-driven development, even though it has been revealed over 1414 years ago, discovered in the early 19th century, demonstrated early in the last century, and revived in the Seventies, and is fast becoming an emerging technology in the 21st century. These barriers can be organized in four dimensions: legal-policy framework, institutional arrangement, finance, and technology. To overcome such barriers in Malaysia, UTM Ocean Thermal Energy Center (UTM OTEC) is established since 3 January 2013; it undertakes, not like other RD the first Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), for ocean thermal energy conversion to electricity or hydrogen (OTEC-H2), established since 18 November 2014, and been included in the 11th Malaysia Plan 2016-2020, for the first time ever, since the introduction of the first Five-Year Malaysia Plan back in 1965.
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Language	English
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