KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 — The government might remove a ban on exporting renewable energy that has been in place since October 2021, Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said today.

He said that his ministry is looking into the matter together with the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

"This has been brought up in Cabinet twice and I think I have to present a paper soon,” he told reporters after launching the Malaysia Energy Transition Outlook at the M Resort and Hotel here.

The ban was implemented by the government when it was under the stewardship of former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, with Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan as energy and natural resources minister.

Bakri MP Yeo Bee Yin — a former energy, science, technology, environment and climate change minister — has been a critic of the ban, saying that it keeps investments and green industry jobs from Malaysia.

She said that Malaysia should be capitalising on opportunities as other countries look to move towards cleaner energy, such as Singapore’s recent announcement that it will be importing up to four gigawatts of low-carbon renewable energy by 2035.