June 16th 2009
Embassy of Japan in Malaysia

The completion ceremony for the Second Phase of Tuanku Jaafar Power Station Rehabilitation Project, financed by the Japanese ODA Loan, was held on 16 Jun 2009.
Hon. Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui, Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water and H.E. Masahiko HORIE, Ambassador of Japan to Malaysia has signed on the plaque for commemoration of friendship between Malaysia and Japan at the ceremony.

H.E. Ambassador HORIE said in his speech, “In fact, out of Japanese ODA Loan to Malaysia , totaling 917 billion yen, 46% has been allocated to the energy sector since energy is essential for greater economic development.” He said that besides this power station, the Port Klang power station, Pasir Gudang power station, Terengganu Hydro-electric power station and Batang Ai Hydro-electric power station were constructed with assistance of the Japanese ODA Loan, and he was proud that all these involved energy-efficient and resource-efficient technologies.


This project aimed to upgrade the power station by demolishing the existing aging, inefficient and high emission conventional natural gas/oil-fired plant (360MW) and installing new 750MW high efficiency and environment friendly combined cycle gas fired power plant. Both the first phase (750MW gas fired combined cycle power plant completed in 2005) and second phase of rehabilitation projects were financed by the Japanese ODA Loan, which together amount to JPY 102.9 billion.


The combined-cycle generation plant will reduce the power station’s environmental impact, raise generation efficiency and make the system more stable. The total capacity of power generation of 1,500MW is equal to 14% of total capacity of TNB in peninsula of 10,835MW and indeed this power station is one of the best thermal power stations with highest generation efficiency in Malaysia of more than 55%. Also, with this rehabilitation, the emissions of Nitride oxide (NOx) is reduced by 60%, Sulfur dioxide (SO2) per unit is reduced by almost 100% and Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission is reduced by 30%.



The project has also offered many business and jobs opportunities to the Malaysian during its development, in which 43 Malaysian companies were benefited through their participation in the supply of facility equipments, civil works etc, while 60% of the workers engaged in the construction works were of Malaysian. Besides, this project was carried out on the principle of safety first principle and achieved no accident record of 12 million man-hours throughout project period of phase 1 & 2.