DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua(left) was responding to Seda chief Fong Chan Onn's explanation reported in The Star yesterday.Pua alleged that checks on some of the bidders revealed that they were unqualified for the job.
"Hence the only conclusion we can arrive at, given Fong's reply, is that he is either completely blind, or is lying through his teeth," he said.
Pua said that a random check on two of the approved companies - Synergy Must Sdn Bhd and Trinity Creations Sdn Bhd - showed that they had only RM100 in paid-up capital each, although the bidding for the quota for the newly-introduced renewable alternative energy scheme was highly competitive.
"How is it that these companies with no capital, no track record and in all likelihood no employees as at the point of time of application, met ‘all the necessary technical criteria as well as financial commitments?'," he said.
Lion's share
On Tuesday, Pua had questioned why the lion's share of the quota had allegedly been awarded to a single contractor, Suzi Suliana, the daughter of recently-retired chief secretary Mohd Sidek Hassan.
"We call upon Seda to re-open the bidding process for the solar energy quota to ensure that all players are given fair treatment, while those who can't possibly meet "all the necessary technical criteria as well as financial commitments are knocked out from the qualification process.", he said.
In an interview with The Star, Fong (left) had described the selection of the applicants as transparent, as it was done via an online system."There is no manual intervention by anyone. The records in the computer are open for inspection,"he had added.
This was in response to Pua's earlier suspicions that there was foul play, having noted that 10 of the companies were set up only in Nov 2011, less than one month before applications for the renewable energy permits were supposed to be given out, on Dec 2.
The Star reported that although the companies had been given approval to generate solar energy, no payment had been disbursed as the Seda board which met two weeks ago, found that the companies had difficulties in making sufficient progress in fulfilling their energy quota, and their request for an extension had been denied by the board.
Seda is a statutory body formed under the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Act 2011. Its purpose is to administer and manage the implementation of the FiT mechanism.
Through this, individuals and corporations may apply to Seda to sell their renewable energy to Tenaga Nasional Bhd.
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