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  dry spell pushes electricity consumption
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The exceptionally hot weather in the past few days pushed electricity consumption to its highest in peninsular Malaysia, with Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) recording an all time high peak demand of 17,175 megawatt (MW) on Wednesday.

The heatwave, due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, has seen the consumer demand for energy climbing since Monday, breaching the 17,000 MW peak demand threshold. This broke the previous record in peak demand of 16,901 MW registered on June 6, 2014.

With the sufficient electricity generation in place, the higher demand projected will not have any impact on the reliability of power supply.

The peninsula's current totalled installed capacity stands at 22,220 MW, out of which 11,818 MW is TNB's own capacity while the balance is the total installed capacity of the Independent Power Producers.

In line with the government's call for efficient use of energy, electricity customers are encouraged to adopt the following measures during peak hours of energy consumption (2-5 PM):

1. Setting air conditioners at 23-25 degree Celcius
2. Ironing and washing their cloths at night
3. Boiling water during off peak hours
4. Operating their machines or factories at night (large power users like cement manufacturers and steel millers).

For more information on energy efficiency tips, please refer to www.tnb.com.my

A preliminary inspection of the Sultan Mahmud Hydro Electric Power Station in Kenyir (Kenyir Dam) reveals that there is no physical impact or signs of structural damage that may affect the dam’s integrity and stability.

During the earthquake (at 9.25pm, 23rd February 2016 as reported by the Malaysian Metrological Department), the dam’s instrumentation detected a very low seismic activity, well below the safe dam design limit. Due to the incident, a thorough inspection of the dam and its associated facilities is being carried out.

All the dams built by TNB are designed to withstand low to moderate seismic activity in accordance with international standard.

• TNB’s hydroelectric projects are designed to prevent bigger disaster

TNB had conducted several briefings and trainings at the hydroelectric stations to improve efficiency and to better prepare communities at flood-prone areas during the monsoon season.
"The preparations is done with the local authorities and related agencies to ensure the water release process is under control at the hydroelectric dams based on Standard Operating Procedures(SOP)," said TNB Senior General Manager, Corporate Affairs and Communications, Datuk Ir. Mohd Aminuddin Mohd Amin.

Tenaga Nasional Berhad's (TNB) more than 8.5 million customers will have access to realtime data about their power consumption and thus, be able to make informed choices about energy usage once an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is deployed by the national utility corporation.

TNB President/Chief Executive Officer, Datuk Seri Ir. Azman Mohd said TNB will soon join other Asian utilities in the deployment of these smart meters as part of its initiatives towards energy sustainability and security.

“We have completed a smart meter/AMI ‘live’ pilot project to understand the technologies, regulatory and customer challenges and we will be embarking on the AMI on a larger scale in the near future,” he said at the AESIEAP CEO Conference 2015 in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Monday.

AESIEAP or Executive Committee Member of Association of the Electricity Supply industry of East Asia and the Western Pacific has since its inception in 1975, worked to foster cooperation and exchange of expertise and technology among entities in the electricity supply industry.

Ir. Azman noted that many countries in the Asia Pacific, notably Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea are deploying smart meters on a large scale to leverage its capabilities in grid control and monitoring.

At the same time, the utilities in the region are exploring added-value services such as Customer Energy Portal, Demand Response, Enhanced Time of Use (TOU) tariff, Critical Peak pricing (CPP), and Net Energy metering (NEM), added.

Other related aspects on sustainability, such as renewable energy plan and initiative, energy efficiency program and long term energy options were also discussed by the regional countries members at the conference.

A Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and YTL Power Generation Sdn. Bhd. (YTL), which was inked on 31st March 1993 has expired on 30th September 2015.
With the expiry, YTL no longer export power to the Grid effective from 1st October 2015. Concurrently, a Leasing Agreement which YTL entered into with TNB to lease the latter's land in Paka, Terengganu and Pasir Gudang, Johor to build its power stations was also affected.
For the record, the PPA was the first PPA signed between TNB and an Independent Power Producer (IPP), and the only PPA that was based on Take-or-Pay mechanism for a period of 21 years.
The total capacity of the power station in Paka is 780 Megawatt (MW), consisting two blocks of 390 MW combined cycle gas fired generating facility. The capacity of the power station in Pasir Gudang is 390 MW (one block of combined cycle gas fired generating facility).

Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) will be conducting cleaning works on boiler steam pipe for Combined Cycle Generating Plant Redevelopment Project at Connaught Bridge Power Station, Klang from 8.00 am till 8.00 pm starting 3rd to 16th October 2015.

Public who lives nearby are advised not to worry with noise that comes from the cleaning works that use high pressured steam blowing method.

Cleaning works are crucial for the commercial operation of the plant redevelopment project to operate as planned, thus meet electricity supply demand this year.

The Department of Environment and public involved have been informed about the cleaning work.

Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has been accorded the ISO 55001:2014 Asset Management - Management Systems - Requirements, making it the first recipient of the certification in Malaysia and the certification was also recognised by the Malaysia Book of Records.

 
• Proposal is in initial assessment stage; no assurance transaction will be concluded
 
• Must pass in-depth due diligence, and independent and third-party evaluation criteria
 
• Non-interested shareholders will vote on any potential transaction at a general meeting

Tenaga Nasional Berhad (“TNB”) has submitted an indicative non-binding proposal to 1Malaysia Development Berhad to acquire the five domestic and eight international power assets of its wholly-owned subsidiary Edra Global Energy Berhad (“Edra”).

TNB would like to emphasise that it remains in the initial stages of its assessment of Edra’s power assets. Therefore, there can be no assurance that any transaction will be concluded. Any potential transaction would need to make strong commercial and financial sense and be value accretive to TNB’s shareholders. Any potential transaction would also be assessed based on the highest standards of corporate governance.

 
• Not a bail out
 
• 2,000MW power plant with good prospect

Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) is confident that its acquisition of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s 3B Project will enhance its shareholder’s value and bring positive value in the long term, said Its President/ Chief Executive Officer, Datuk Seri Ir. Azman Mohd.

“It is a greenfield power plant with good prospect and with the increased generation capacity of 2,000 MW upon completion of the Project, the acquisition will bring about positive value to TNB in the long run.

“Based on financial analysis, the Project is expected to have a positive impact on the earnings of TNB. It is not a bailout of 1MDB,” stressed Ir. Azman.

Life of Rosman Ahmad, 50, is now more comfortable, after Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) restored his house in Kampung Gapis, Rasau, Slim River through Baiti Jannati Programme at Perak State 2015.