Tioman, Redang, and Perhentian are not just tourist destinations. They are now live laboratories for the kind of integrated clean energy systems that Malaysia’s entire grid needs to become. There is a particular quality to the electricity problem on a tropical island that concentrates the mind in ways that mainland grid debates rarely do. When the diesel generator fails on Pulau Tioman — as it has, as it will — there is no backup interconnector …
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