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Article: MALAYSIA'S BAKUN DAM TO START SUPPLYING POWER END OF NEXT YEAR.
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- November 10, 2009
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KUCHING (Malaysia), Nov 10 Asia Pulse - The Bakun hydroelectric dam in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak may begin producing 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity in the last quarter of 2010, according to Zulkifle Osman, managing director of Sarawak Hidro Sdn Bhd, the project developer.
He said the Bakun dam, the world's second highest concrete-faced rockfill dam, is expected to be completed by end of 2011, with eight hydroelectric turbine-generator units with total installed capacity of 2,400MW for supply to Peninsular Malaysia, east Malaysia states of Sabah and Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan on Borneo island.
"The impoundment of the dam will start in ...