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Renewable Energy and Solar Basics

Solar proposals are easy to receive and hard to compare. Two quotes for the same roof can differ by forty percent, project different yields from identical equipment, and rest on financing structures with very different long-term consequences. This day covers how a photovoltaic system actually performs on a Malaysian rooftop, how the current export and corporate procurement schemes work, and how to model payback yourself so that a vendor's spreadsheet is something you check rather than something you accept.

Programme Agenda

How Solar PV Works

Modules, inverters, mounting and protection. Direct and alternating current, the balance of system, and where efficiency is lost between the panel rating and the meter.

Yield in Malaysian Conditions

Irradiance, roof orientation and tilt, shading, soiling from dust and haze, and temperature derating in a hot humid climate. Why a panel rarely produces its nameplate figure and what a realistic annual yield estimate looks like.

Sizing Against Your Load Profile

Matching generation to consumption. Why a system sized to the roof rather than to the load produces exported energy of lower value, and how a half-hourly load profile changes the sizing decision.

Export Schemes and Self-Consumption

The current arrangements for exporting surplus to the grid, including the transition from Net Energy Metering to the Solar ATAP programme for new applicants, and what happens to existing contracts. Self-consumption as the primary value driver.

Corporate Green Power Procurement

Buying renewable electricity without owning generation: the Corporate Renewable Energy Supply Scheme and the Corporate Green Power Programme, third-party grid access, and renewable energy certificates. When procurement beats a rooftop.

Financing Models

Outright purchase, lease, and the power purchase agreement where a developer owns the system on your roof. Comparing them on total cost, balance sheet treatment, contract length and what happens at the end of the term.

Payback Modelling

Building the model: capital cost, yield, tariff offset, degradation, inverter replacement, operations and maintenance, and financing cost. Sensitivity testing the assumptions a vendor has been optimistic about.

Evaluating a Quote

Participants review real proposals against a checklist: equipment specification and warranty, yield assumptions, structural assessment, approvals, and the operations and maintenance terms.

Learning Outcomes:
Explain how a solar PV system works and where energy is lost
Estimate realistic annual yield for a Malaysian rooftop
Size a system against a load profile rather than against available roof area
Describe the current export scheme arrangements and their effect on value
Compare rooftop generation against corporate green power procurement
Evaluate purchase, lease and power purchase agreement structures
Build and sensitivity test a payback model yourself
Interrogate a vendor proposal on specification, yield and maintenance terms

Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Beginner
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included

Frequently Asked Questions

Facility and operations managers, finance managers evaluating proposals, sustainability staff, procurement, and business owners considering rooftop solar. It is written for buyers rather than installers.

No. It does not cover system design, electrical installation or the competency requirements for installers. It covers what a buyer needs to specify, evaluate and finance a system.

Content is reviewed before each delivery and the session states the position as at that date, including which scheme applies to new applicants and what happens to existing contracts. Because this area moves quickly, the session avoids treating any scheme as permanent.

Yes, and the final module is built around it. Participants who bring a real proposal and a recent electricity bill get considerably more out of the day.

Yes, this programme is HRD Corp SBL-KHAS claimable. Our team can assist your HR department with the documentation required for the grant application.

Yes. Any programme can be booked as a team day. Everyone works the same brief together, so your people come away having built something and knowing each other better.

If you are claiming under HRD Corp, the session has to fall at least 14 days after your HRD Corp approval. If you are not claiming, the date is flexible and we work around your calendar.

Put them on the self-paced e-learning instead. Your team works through the modules on our LMS in their own time, sits the assessment, and earns the same certificate, so nobody has to clear a full day together.

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