Woh power station and Jor dam

Seven stations under one control
Monday February 13, 2006

CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Seven power stations here will be operated under one control centre in the near future to increase their efficiency.

Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) vice-president for generation Abdul Razak Abdul Majid said the remote operations centre would be completed in two years' time and would be based at the Jor power station.

"The setting-up of the operations centre coincides with the current desilting works at Ringlet Lake and the rehabilitation work at the Jor and Woh (Sultan Idris II) power stations as we want to maximise the capacity of power generation.

“We will be using high-speed supervisory control and distribution automation (Scada) operations to control the seven power plants here to increase work efficiency,” he told the media during a tour of the power plants recently.

Abdul Razak said three or four operators would be manning the centre during each of the five working shifts.

He said among the functions of the centre were to monitor progress at the power plants, to control flooding and to monitor for abnormal rise in water levels at dams.

Among the seven power plants, the Jor and the Woh power plants were the largest and supply 250 Megawatts of electricity to the people in the area.

On Feb 5, TNB had temporarily shut down its 37-year-old Woh power station and Jor dam for a two-month maintenance repair exercise.

Uncontrolled development over the years had caused 75% of Ringlet Lake, which is part of the Sultan Abu Bakar Dam, to become silted causing the Habu power station to be affected and increasing the risk of floods to residents living downstream. -- The Star.

MAINTENANCE EXERCISE: Rehabilitation works being carried out at the Jor power station in Cameron Highlands recently.