Home > Current Capacity Status

Current Capacity StatusPrint this page 

As of June 2010, total available capacity in Peninsular Malaysia stands at 21,052 MW. The highest number of installed plants is gas plants. The total current available capacity of this type of plant is 12,205 MW. Coal plants with 6933 MW of available capacity constitutes to 33% of the capacity mix. It is then followed by hydro plants which accounts for 9% of capacity mix at available capacity of 1852 MW. As for distillate plant, current available capacity stands at 62MW and it contributes to only 0.3% of the mix.

It is apparent that we are highly depended on fossil fuel sources; approximately 90% of our dependable capacity is either from gas, coal or distillate.  As of now, only hydro is our major non fossil option.

1