Since 2002, approximately 85% of commercial and industrial consumers have switched power providers at least once.
This means that industrial consumers use about 60% of the total energy used in Malaysia.
Commercial and industrial consumers normally have more complex pricing schemes.
The higher prices, however, drove the fuel-switchable industrial consumer away from natural gas.
In reality, as of 2006, the 3,800+ businesses contained within the database includes data from the consumer, industrial and service sectors.
This technology can potentially be used in a large variety of applications, including consumer, industrial, medical and military.
A single domestic customer will have to compete with big industrial consumers to get a fair price.
And the large industrial consumers will be able to adopt the necessary measures to guarantee security of supply, but not homes or small commercial enterprises.
It should be stressed that this is requested by industrial consumers.
Large industrial consumers often locate near cheap sources of electricity.