Carbon Capture Utilization Potential in Malaysia

Under the Paris agreement, Malaysia has set its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 (35% of which is on an unconditional basis), having 2005 as the base year. Carbon capture and utilization, together with an increased use of renewable energy sources, will be one of the main pillars of the national policy towards achieving this goal. Malaysia produces on an annual basis more than 100 million tons of biomass and is the second largest palm oil producer in the world. Thus, the focus of this study is the biogenic sources of carbon dioxide, and more specifically biomass power plants and palm oil mill effluent-based biogas power plants, operating at different scales across the country. Our objective is to map the existing carbon sources as well as the potential carbon receivers as many as possible (in both regions, East and West Malaysia), estimate the annual amount of produced carbon dioxide and identify the most economically viable business models for the development of symbiotic schemes based on the capture and reuse of carbon dioxide.