Tenaga to build turbines

Tenaga to build turbines

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia's national power firm Tenaga Nasional Bhd will invest 1.77 billion ringgit (US$708 million) to build two 500 megawatt steam turbines, a report said yesterday.

Tenaga executive chairman Ahmad Tajuddin Ali said the turbines will be built at the Kapar power station in Klang, in central Selangor state, to meet the country's energy's needs presently growing at 13 percent annually.

The turbines will be built by a consortium of six contractors and are designed to have minimal environmental impact, Tajuddin said. He did not identify the six contractors.

The first turbine would be completed by October next year while the second would be operational by April 1999, he added. The Kapar power station presently operates four 300 megawatt steam turbines and eight gas turbines.