This paper presents a novel System Dynamics model for solar thermal installed capacity for Malaysian Industries. The objective of this paper is to foresee the influences of technical acceptance and willingness of the Malaysian industries to install the solar thermal system to replace the current system for heating process. Results revealed the Malaysian industries interest level on solar thermal is low. Therefore to increase the interest, Malaysian industries need more booster supports from the government to increase the investment in new technology, which will advantage the company and Malaysia in long-term. Not only industries, the policy makers will also benefit from the outcome, to tailor the framework for solar thermal in developing the solar thermal policy for industries in Malaysia.

This paper presents a comparison of solar thermal installation Capacity (STIC) with and without fiscal incentives for Malaysia Small Medium Enterprises (SME) sub-sector. The solar thermal installation capacity was measured through a policy evaluation system developed. The STIC was produced by System Dynamics Simulation (SDS) technique to measures the changes in installation capacity caused by SME acceptance, project risk and techno-economic analysis. The data were statistically analyzed to predict the optimal STIC between the fiscal incentives SDS models and non-fiscal incentives SDS models. The results revealed that the fiscal monetary and know-how on the solar thermal heating technology had the significant influence on the non-fiscal incentive SDS model, however, the fiscal incentives SDS models gave the best representation of level of installation capacity. The effect of the low percentage obtained on non -fiscal incentives SDS model has shown that solar thermal policy maker need to take into account that type, program and mechanism of incentives will give an impact the policy to be developed for SME heating process industries

In this study, solar thermal technology acceptances among SME in Selangor Malaysia were investigated. The acceptance was measured through the questionnaire distributed in six district councils in Selangor. The data obtained were statistically analysed. Only 15 companies volunteer to answer the survey and were classified into three categories: food and beverages, textile, and others. The results revealed that the SME industries in Selangor are not willing to adopt the solar thermal technology as the survey data has shown that 39% of respondent were willing to implement the solar thermal system, 57% in indecision situation, and 4% of the respondent were reluctant to install the solar thermal system. It concludes that the SMEs are unwilling to install solar thermal technology in their process activities. This article contributes to the policymaker to a successful solar thermal policy for SMEs process industries in Malaysia.

This paper presents System Dynamics simulation and Techno-Economic analysis to estimate the techno-economic benefits and reliabilities of solar heating. The study focuses only on industrial heat process in Malaysia. The main objective of the current work was to investigate the solar thermal installation feasibility by Malaysian industrial heat process for next 20 years. The solar thermal installation was measured through the techno-economic feasibility (TEF) study by developing the TEF model using System Dynamics Simulation (SDS). subsidy, net solar thermal cost, and NPV are used as economic influence factors. System performance, solar thermal life time, energy, solar fraction and size of collector area are used as technical influence parameters. Results have shown that the economic factor has a bigger influence on solar thermal installation capacity in Malaysia. The technical factors only contribute small percentage to the installation percentage. Policy maker could benefit from the outcomes obtained as a guideline.

<p>A solar thermal heating technology has a great potential in industries application. This paper presents a prediction of Malaysian industries acceptance on the solar thermal heating system for replacing the current heating technologies. In Malaysia, most of the heating technologies are using fossil fuel as a heating source due to the low price of the source. The solar thermal is another type of sustainable renewable energy. The objective of this research is to produce a Malaysian industries acceptance model in order to study the willingness of the Malaysian industries to migrate and use the new renewable energy technologies in their heating process. System dynamic simulation has been used to develop the novel solar thermal heating acceptance model by using the survey data collected from process industries in Malaysia. The focus of the research is in low and medium temperature categories of the solar thermal system since most of the process industries in Malaysia are involving with low and medium temperature in the heating process. The System Dynamic model was designed to predict the investment decision taken by the industries based on investment decision rules. The results with current support from the government show that the Malaysian industries acceptance towards solar thermal heating technologies is low. To enhance the willingness among the industries, a new policy on solar thermal energy application for industries properly need to be tailored. </p>