TANJUNG BIN POWER PLANT (3x700 MW)
Malaysia

Malaysia's 2100 MW Tanjung Bin coal-fired plant is one of the largest infrastructure projects currently under development in south-east Asia

The RM7.8 billion coal-fired power plant to be built by Tanjung Bin Power Sdn. Bhd. is among the largest of the infrastructure projects currently under construction in the nation. As a privatised project under the IPP programme, it ranks as the biggest capacity todate. The project involves developing, designing, manufacturing, constructing, testing, commissioning, operating and maintaining a 2,100MW coal-fired power plant for a period of 25 years from the day the first of the three power generation unit achieves commercial operations.

The Tanjung Bin Power Plant, built on an abandoned aquaculture farm, is located in Mukim Serkat, Pontian, adjacent to the mouth of Sungai Pulai in south-western Johor. It overlooks the Port of Tanjung Pelepas. When commissioned, the power plant will offer low-cost base load energy to the nation. The plant is expected to play a key role in realising the government’s plans for transforming south-west Johor into a new growth area.

The plant will be a conventionally-designed, pulverised coal-fired power plant consisting of three 700MW sub-critical boilers and tandem compounded-type turbine generator units. It will utilise proven coal combustion technology that is safe and efficient. State-of-the-art, clean coal technology will treat emissions to meet the requirements stipulated in the Environmental Impact Assessment approved by the Department of Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. The use of coal as fuel is in line with the government’s aspiration to reduce dependency on natural gas, from which close to 70% of the country’s power is generated currently.

Covering about a third of its entire 900-acre site, the Tanjung Bin Power Plant-in addition to its boilers and steam turbine generators-will be built with a coal unloading jetty, coal handling and storage facilities, and an ash disposal pond, among others. Electrostatic precipitators will limit particulate matter in the emissions, which will be further scrubbed clean by a flue gas desulphurisation process before being discharged to the atmosphere through a 200-metre high chimney.
 
The facility’s proximity to the sea will provide it with a source of cooling water as well as furnishing it with a suitable means for the delivery of fuel. Coal will be imported through bulk carriers from mines in Indonesia, China, Australia, South Africa, and elsewhere as the need arises. The electricity generated will be transmitted from the plant’s electrical switchyard to the power grid of the national utility, TNB, via extra high-voltage 500kV transmission lines. The power will be sold to TNB under the terms of the Power Purchase Agreement executed on 25 July 2002.

The ground-breaking ceremony of the Tanjung Bin Power Plant was performed by the Menteri Besar of Johor, YB Datuk Abdul Ghani bin Othman, on 19 January 2004. As of end November 2004, almost all piling works s have been completed and overall construction works about 30% have been completed and we are on track to meet the scheduled dates. The Commercial Operation Date of the first unit is scheduled for 31 August 2006. The second unit will follow six months after that, in February 2007, while the third and final unit is expected to be commissioned another six months after the second, i.e. by 31 August 2007.