PETALING JAYA: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), which commenced operations of the country’s largest Large-Scale Solar (LSS) photovoltaic plant (pix) on Nov 23, expects to generate 1,700 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy by 2025.
The RM300 million project, which came under the 11th Malaysian Plan, was secured by TNB’s wholly owned subsidiary TNB Sepang Solar Sdn Bhd through a competitive bidding process.
TNB said in a statement that the LSS, which was developed on an area measuring 98ha in Sepang, started operations at midnight on Nov 23.
The LSS, which has a capacity of 50MWac, utilises 230,000 solar panels to generate electricity.
With its 50MWac capacity, the LSS will in turn increase TNB’s renewable energy capacity in the national grid to 72.3MW.
This said TNB is in line with the government’s national agenda to increase the generation of green energy.
The LSS is expected to help the government hit its 20% RE target by 2030 , through the generation of 1,700MW by 2025.
The LSS achieved its initial operation date in October by generating 2.4MW of electricity.
