hi all,
Please find a link below to a just released report ‘Clean Energy Options for Sabah’ by Prof Dr Daniel M. Kammen of RAEL Laboratory, who headed the Berkeley team.
This report was handed out to the public at the energy forum in KK on saturday so i assume its ok to please spread it far & wide. I’ve uploaded it on to yousendit.com this will only be valid for 7 days from now.
I hope it will be dissected by all and will assist the Sabah and Federal governments, TNB/SESB, the IPPs, the corporate investment sectors and the general public to find solutionS and a way forward for Sabah’s decades long power woes.
TNB/SESB can not be expected to do this alone.
Please download the report here:
PLEASE DO SEND IT FAR & WIDE TO THOSE THAT MAY BE INTERESTED!
Also here’s a short video on Malaysiakini TV of a Prof Dr Daniel M. Kammen who headed the Berkeley team speaking…
Here’s a report in today’s Star newspaper: Renewable energy from palm oil waste
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/3/22/nation/5908920&sec=nation
i STILL have questions!!!
- Whats the feasibility of Sabah state organisations (Yayasan Sabah??) setting up a grid operation company to alleviate TNB’s issue of bringing power to the grid. Assuming it has any traction, this then allows to press for connection to the west coast grid and thereby makes the coal plant permanently redundant??
- Also how come the West-East Grid that has a high transfer capability (sorry i cant remember the numbers off hand – is in the report) is currently only transfering 50MW from the West to East coast?
- Also what happened to the shelved ‘Southern Grid’ that was proposed several years ago to support the West-East Grid – should be made a priority, brought forward no?
- The Coal Plant has a life span of 25 years. Then what?
- Why also was Sarawak’s offer to sell power to Sabah turned down by TNB/SESB? According to Malaysia plan this & that the Sabah/Sarawak power grids are suppose to be interconnected into The East Malaysian Grid with further plans to connect to West Malaysia & thus create a nation wide Malaysia Power Grid, why wasn’t this grid to Sabah started years ago when it was first proposed as one of the justifications for the construction of Bakun Dam?
The coal plant to me feels like a distraction to REAL & long term power solutions.
Small localised biomass RE plants on Sabah’s east coast will ease the power woes there in the immediate future (SREP must scrap the 10MW RE cap) and DE-CENTRALISED RE plants and small mini hydro projects will also help stabilise the east coast as we wait for Sabah’s power grid to be upgraded & as we wait for the baseload Kimanis gas plant to be finished in the short term (same time span as waiting for the coal plant).
Do please share your thoughts?
Power to the People!!!
many thanks,
i-lann
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