Malaysia: Sarawak CM says Bakun Dam power not for peninsula, but may sell to Indonesia

Malaysia: Sarawak CM says Bakun Dam power not for peninsula, but may sell to
Indonesia

The Sarawak government will not sell electricity generated from Bakun Dam to
peninsular Malaysia due to the prohibitive cost of undersea cables, Chief
Minister Datuk Abang Johari Openg said.

Power generated from the Bakun project will be used within the state and may
be sold to Indonesia's Kalimantan, which neighbours Sarawak, The Borneo Post
reported Abang Johari telling reporters in Kuching yesterday.

"The state government will not sell the electricity power to Peninsular
Malaysia because laying undersea cable will be very costly and the other
problem is leakage.

"As far as the energy [from Bakun] is concerned, I have decided that we want
to consume it [the energy] for our own, and perhaps we just want to sell it
to our neighbour, like what we are doing now ― selling it to Pontianak in
West Kalimantan," he was quoted saying.

The 2,400 MW Bakun Dam started operating in 2011 after taking almost 15
years to complete.

The project was built at a cost of more than RM1.7 billion.

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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/sarawak-cm-says-bakun-dam
-power-not-for-peninsula-but-may-sell-to-indonesia

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