(From left) Cofely South East Asia CEO Pierre Cheyron, ADB senior investment specialist Daniel Wiedmer and Nexant Asia government and clean energy consulting vice president Dr Peter Du Pont at the media briefing on Exploring Prospects for District Cooling in Southeast Asia at Pullman Putrajaya on OCT. 22, 2013. Rohaizat/Star.
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has the potential to triple the scale of its district cooling industry to a built-up capacity of 575,000 tonnes of refrigerants, said Nexant Asia Ltd government and clean energy consulting vice-president Peter Du Pont.
“This is just a ballpark estimate based on the technical structures and potential, and it is just looking at new projects that fit the profile of projects larger than 20,000 sq m. Malaysia is clearly the first in the region, and if this is scaled up, then the country could easily expand the market in the next few years from the 200,000-tonne capacity right now,” he told reporters at the Energy Wise: Exploring Prospects for District Cooling in South-East Asia seminar, organised by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday.
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