To further strengthen energy demand analysis capabilities, the Malaysian Government had taken the opportunity offered to participate in Sub-activity P-1.l on Sectoral Energy Demand Studies implemented within phase I (1987-1989) of the Regional Energy Development Programme (REDP) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP). An in-country core group was formed with officers drawn from various Government Ministeries and Agencies, namely, Economic Planning Unit (EPU) in the Prime Minister's Department, Ministry of Energy, Telecommunications and Posts (METP), Ministry of Transport (MOT) and the National Electricity Board (NEB). The team started work in February 1988 and the project culminated in a National Semninar held in Kuala Lumpur on the 10th. of August, 1989.