Malaysia's TNB to build Prai power plant

Malaysia's Energy Commission awarded Tenaga Nasional Bhd a contract to build and operate a RM3bil combined-cycle gas turbine Prai power plant.

Energy Commission chairman Tan Sri Dr Ahmad Tajuddin Ali said the CCGT power plant would use two units of Siemens H-class gas turbines that can achieve plant efficiency of around 60% when commissioned in 2016 compared with the efficiency of F-class combined cycle plant in the system of around 55%.

The new 1,071 MW Prai power plant is expected to commence operation by March 1, 2016 and the tariff for the Prai plant was 34.7 sen per kWh.

According Tajuddin, the estimated cost of RM3bil for the Prai power plant was a “good and competitive price for a gas plant”.

He added that bidding for Prai power plant and the extension for PPAs were done concurrently to meet the requirement of generation capacity in Peninsular Malaysia for 2016/2017.

“Malaysia's electricity demand keeps increasing every year. The new plant is to meet the requirement of generation capacity in the peninsula,” Tajuddin said in a briefing.

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