Malakoff power plant on track for 2016 start
PONTIAN: Construction work on Malakoff Corporation Bhd’s new 1,000MW coal- fired power plant in Tanjung Bin, Johor, is on track, said Tanjung Bin Energy Sdn Bhd assistant project director Mohd Syahrul Izwan Ismail.
Denying reports that the Tanjung Bin Energy Power Plant (T4) project has been delayed for about six months, he expressed confidence that the plant would commence commercial operations on March 1, 2016 as scheduled.
“I’m not sure where the references (reports) came from, but as far as we are concerned, March 1 next year is still the target date for us to complete the project,” he told reporters on a one-day media familiarisation trip to Malakoff’s Tanjung Bin Power Plant (TBPP) and T4 in Pontian.
Mohd Syahrul Izwan said the stack, switchyard, coal unloading line, water treatment plant, fuel unloading station, compressor house, main transformer as well as medium- and low- voltage switch gears have been completed and waiting to be commissioned, while construction of T4’s boiler and turbine is in the final phase. Malakoff Corp was awarded a RM6.5 billion contract in June 2011 to construct T4.
Construction works, undertaken by its subsidiary Tanjung Bin Energy, commenced in March 2012.
The new power plant will ramp up TBPP’s current generating capacity of 2,100MW to a total combined generating capacity of 3,100MW in Tanjung Bin.
TBPP is the first privatelyowned coal- fired power plant in Malaysia and one of the largest privately- owned coal-fired power plants in Southeast Asia based on generation capacity. — Bernama
I’m not sure where the references (reports) came from, but as far as we are concerned, March 1 next year is still the target date for us to complete the project.
Mohd Syahrul Izwan Ismail, Tanjung Bin Energy Sdn Bhd assistant project director