REVISITING THE PROPOSED NATIONAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY MASTER PLAN FOR MALAYSIA

Another silent treatment by the responsible ministry on energy about the plan after they shocked us by publishing quietly  the so-called self modified and copy and paste document that they called it as a draft National Energy Efficiency Action Plan for public comment.

It was not strange to see there was no or very little follow-ups by the mainstream media on the plan because the immediate responses from stakeholders were not in the favor of the ministry at all and also that will reflect badly to the federal government.

Here I would like to share some objective coverage by some alternative online media portals on the plan.

With all the responses, finally they extended the deadline for the submission of comments and feedback in few more weeks.

Despite all the inaction of the ministry on the initial documents called Draft National EE Master Plan(NEEMP), EE related individual professionals, activists and organizations from various industry groups, professional bodies and NGOs did send their feedback objectively based on the published draft NEEAP which can be downloaded from http://www.kettha.gov.my/kettha/portal/document/files/NEEAP%20For%20Comments%20Final%20January%202014.pdf.


I did hear some news circulated among EE fraternity that that one of the immediate action will be taken by the ministry with regard to the draft NEEAP was to call for engagement with stakeholders once they have received and consolidated all comments and inputs after the deadline.
It sounded very positive and with new appointment of the Deputy Secretary General in about the same period might shed some light into the subject.
....months has passed after the 28 February 2014 deadline.

I knew that the so-called expert in the ministry who drafted the document was transferred to the Ministry Of Education not long after the deadline and efforts to check on what's next have been faced with only silent treatment or promise after promise that they will call for a dialogue with stakeholders.

So, where can we move from here...and frankly speaking...I don't know.

However, to refresh our memory, I would like to share again promises that have been made on the same subject in past publicly and captured by most mainstream media as well( may be because such news will increase the popularity of the government in that period).

Those are  promises or  merely lip services to sound an look good  or a just lies to Malaysians?


So, who is accountable for all those statements and who will drive energy efficiency  for the sake of the nation now?
If they are not interested to do jobs that are supposed to be theirs and paid by us as tax payers...who will?