Implementing Sustainable and Innovative Renewable Energy at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia

Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia is expected and plans to be transformed into a sustainable campus. Efforts to implement sustainable element are slowly and progressively developed and has become an important innovation agenda incorporated in sustainable development in every aspect of life in the university campus. To realize this transformation, it has started with an idea to study a potential of using the renewable energy. The Renewable Energy Policy Network, REN (2007), reported that the potential wind energy generating capacity has increased by 28 percent and the solar energy surged to 52 percent. The energy efficiency and renewable energy under the Eight Malaysia Plan (2001 - 2005) and Ninth Malaysian Plan (2006 - 2010) focused on targeting for renewable energy to be significant contributor and for better utilization of energy resources. An emphasis to further reduce the dependency on petroleum provides for more effort to integrate alternative source of energy. Wind is one type of renewable energy that can be developed to generate free and clean energy replacing the one that cannot be renewed and cause the pollution such as fossil fuel. Therefore, the purpose of this research is done to determine whether it is suitable for Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia to use wind as alternative source to generate energy replacing the use of electricity by Tenaga Nasional Berhad in the future In order to implement the Kampus Barakah a study of the possibility of adopting a renewable energy was done.