Sunday, 12 Jul 2020 06:11 PM MYT
KUCHING, July 12 — Sarawak Energy says its 1,285MW Baleh hydroelectric project located in Kapit division, central Sarawak, is on track to meet major milestones despite the challenges of managing the movement control order limitations while keeping the site team safe from Covid-19 infection. “As Sarawak Energy’s largest hydropower project to date, Baleh HEP is a key state infrastructure and hydro-industrialisation development project planned as part of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy to ensure sufficient energy capacity for Sarawak’s future growth and development,” he said in a statement today.“The completion of the diversion tunnels is critical towards meeting the overall Baleh HEP project completion by 2026,” he said.
He said the construction of upstream and downstream coffer dams to enable the diversion of the river will start by September this year, after which the main activity of building up the dam could proceed.
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