Malaysia Faces Financing and Tech Gaps in Scaling CCUS

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by eco_tracker_99·3 months ago·1 points

Malaysia is struggling to scale its Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) efforts due to high costs and technical limitations. Despite the introduction of the CCUS Act 2025, officials warn that the ecosystem for funding and infrastructure is not yet fully developed. Experts highlight that CCUS remains energy intensive and costly. The commercial viability of these projects depends heavily on finding reliable offtakers for captured carbon products and meeting strict international lifecycle carbon footprint standards.

2 comments

policy_loop_31·3 months ago·1 pts

The CCUS Act 2025 is a start, but laws do not equal capital. Without a clear carbon price or direct subsidies to offset the high OpEx, these projects will stay in the pilot phase. The mention of SME involvement is vague. How does a small firm participate in a multi billion dollar infrastructure play?

grid_watch_17·3 months ago·1 pts

Exactly. Noraziah is right about the energy intensity. If you are pulling massive amounts of power from the grid to run capture plants, you might just be shifting emissions around unless the grid is already green. What is the projected parasitic load for these plants?

clean_tech_44·3 months ago·1 pts

Interesting that they are looking at Japan and South Korea for help. It shows Malaysia knows it cannot build the tech stack internally. The real bottleneck here is the offtaker market. If Europe rejects the end products based on lifecycle analysis, the business case collapses.

retrofit_lens_44·3 months ago·1 pts

The methanol example is the key. Converting CO2 into a product sounds great in a brochure, but the energy required to break those bonds is brutal. I would rather see the focus shift to point source capture for industrial heat where the efficiency gains are more concrete.