SummaryThe MBIPV project, in the view of the Evaluator, has made important and real contributions to removing barriers for BIPV, in particular awareness creation and capacity building in important areas such as benchmarking, best practices, monitoring and not in the least demonstration of BIPV technology and demonstration of cost reduction. MBIPV exhibits by mid term impact on factors and key actors affecting decision-making concerning PV and renewable energy at several levels, e.g. government, agencies and institutions, utilities, academia and industry as well as consultancies, architects, developers and other professionals. During the MBIPV project 4 international PV companies have established operation in Malaysia. The MBIPV project has and is generating insights into the technical and economic potential for PV initiatives and the options available to government to realise that potential.
While these achievements at the projects mid term are real and while the projects final objectives and targets at this stage can only by the Evaluator be deemed realistically to be reached or even overachieved, their longer-term sustainability will be in doubt without on-going - after the MBIPV project period - government support and legislative and financial interventions, which enabling framework is currently not yet in place. However, discussions with key actors including the MEWC indicate, that such an enabling framework indeed may be in place in time.
In addition, a main barrier to increased use of PV and RE in Malaysia remains the subsidised energy prices. However, there is little the MBIPV project can do directly to remove that barrier except for providing relevant policy recommendations.