Malaysia

Malaysia is seen to have good potential in renewable energy on account of its plentiful resources.

Malakoff is confident that it has the capacity to undertake the construction of a new 1,000 MW coal-based power plant at Tanjung Bin, Johor, on competitive pricing.

Alstom will engineer, procure, construct and commission a 1,000MW steam turbine, a generator, a supercritical boiler and auxiliaries for upercritical coal-fired power plant in Manjung, Malaysia. The power generation equipment worth over €650 million.

Tenaga Nasional Berhad will build a 300MW gas-fired power station in Sabah.

Premium Renewable Energy of Malaysian selected Enverget to perform the engineering design for a project that will use Envergent's RTP® Rapid Thermal Processing technology. It will convert palm biomass to renewable heat and electricity.

The government will decide on the concessionaire for the country's second 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power plant in June.

Malaysia is exploring a tie-up with India's Centre for Wind Energy Technology to utilise its technical expertise in the field.

Tenaga Nasional Berhad is looking for other sources of coal due to the flood-induced shortfall in Queensland, Australia.