Malaysia will continue providing residential solar rebates to approved applicants under its Sustainable Rebate and Incentive Assistance (SuRIA) Home programme into 2027, the country’s Energy Transition and Water Transformation Minister Fadillah Yusof has confirmed.
The SuRIA Home programme launched in June with a MYS 150 million ($36.7 million) budget. The scheme offers eligible households a rebate of MYS 600 ($147.11)/kW of installed solar capacity up to a maximum of MYS 3,000 per household for a 5 kW PV system.
Yusof’s update to parliament earlier this week confirmed that applicants whose installations have not been completed by the programme’s scheduled Dec. 31, 2026 end date will remain eligible for their approved rebates, provided their solar systems are installed by March 2027.
There is currently MYS 90 million worth of funding support remaining, the minister added.
Government statistics state that 12,374 households had received support through the scheme as of September 15, worth a combined MYS 36.2 million. The government set a target of supporting 50,000 homeowners under the scheme at the time of its launch.
Yusof also provided parliament with an update on Malaysia’s Solar Accelerated Transition Action Programme (Solar ATAP), which allows residential, commercial and industrial customers to install solar for self-consumption while exporting surplus power to the grid. It came into effect at the start of the year.
The programme had approved 24,291 applications representing 391.85 MW of solar capacity as of September 15, Yusof said, compared to with 135.92 MW approved as of April 30, representing an increase of almost 190% in approved capacity over four and a half months.
Yusof also highlighted solar leasing and rent-to-own arrangements as alternative financing options that could reduce upfront costs and make residential solar installations more accessible to lower- and middle-income households in Malaysia.
Malaysia added 1.4 GW of solar last year, taking cumulative capacity to in excess of 5.7 GW.
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