pywong
7th July 2009, 07:13 AM
Peninsular Malaysia has excess electricity and don't need the power from Bakun. Sabah is short of electricity. Would it not be cheaper to transfer the power by overland transmission towers to Sabah, where it is needed, instead of by undersea cable to P. Malaysia, where it is not needed. The logic beats me.
Tender for Bakun’s undersea cable out next year
KUCHING, July 6 — An open international tender will be put up early next year for the laying of submarine cables to ship electricity generated by Sarawak’s Bakun hydroelectric dam to Peninsula Malaysia.
Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said the international bidding to lay 675km undersea cable from Pueh in Lundu, near here, to Tanjung Leman in Mersing, Johor, would be called because the task needs high level expertise.
He added that the tender, worth about RM8 billion to RM10 billion, could be awarded to the successful bidder by the middle of next year.
“The first undersea cable is expected to be ready for transmission by end of 2015 and the second by 2017,” he told reporters after attending a briefing on the state’s power generation by officials from Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) here today.
The cable project involves laying a 730km high-voltage direct current transmission line and a 675km undersea cable for the 2,400MW Bakun hydroelectric dam.
Chin said the Bakun hydroelectric dam, which is 90 per cent completed, would start generating electricity in the later part of next year.
He said special purpose vehicles (SPVs) involving Tenaga Nasional Berhad, SEB and the Sarawak government would be established to operate the Bakun hydroelectric dam on lease basis from the federal government. – Bernama TheMalaysiaInsider.... (http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/business/31548-tender-for-bakuns-undersea-cable-out-next-year)
Tender for Bakun’s undersea cable out next year
KUCHING, July 6 — An open international tender will be put up early next year for the laying of submarine cables to ship electricity generated by Sarawak’s Bakun hydroelectric dam to Peninsula Malaysia.
Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said the international bidding to lay 675km undersea cable from Pueh in Lundu, near here, to Tanjung Leman in Mersing, Johor, would be called because the task needs high level expertise.
He added that the tender, worth about RM8 billion to RM10 billion, could be awarded to the successful bidder by the middle of next year.
“The first undersea cable is expected to be ready for transmission by end of 2015 and the second by 2017,” he told reporters after attending a briefing on the state’s power generation by officials from Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) here today.
The cable project involves laying a 730km high-voltage direct current transmission line and a 675km undersea cable for the 2,400MW Bakun hydroelectric dam.
Chin said the Bakun hydroelectric dam, which is 90 per cent completed, would start generating electricity in the later part of next year.
He said special purpose vehicles (SPVs) involving Tenaga Nasional Berhad, SEB and the Sarawak government would be established to operate the Bakun hydroelectric dam on lease basis from the federal government. – Bernama TheMalaysiaInsider.... (http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/business/31548-tender-for-bakuns-undersea-cable-out-next-year)