OREANDA-NEWS. Sumitomo Corporation, in a consortium formed with Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd., has been contracted to undertake the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) operations for an ultra-supercritical coal-fired thermal power plant (1,000 MW x 1 unit) in Manjung, Perak State, Malaysia, being planned by Malaysia's government-run power utility company, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (head office: Malaysia; representative: Datuk Seri Ir. Azman Mohad.; hereinafter, "TNB").

The Sumitomo Corporation - Daelim Consortium, as the nominated EPC Contractor of TNB, participated in the electricity tariff bidding for the IPP concession of the 1,000MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant, which was announced by the Malaysian government in December 2012. TNB was selected as the preferred bidder, and on August 21, 2013 Sumitomo Corporation signed an official EPC contract with TNB. The EPC contract amount is approximately 130 billion yen, and the construction is scheduled to commence in January 2014, with completion expected in October 2017.

This is Sumitomo Corporation's fifth large-scale power plant construction project in Malaysia - the previous instances being the Prai gas-fired combined cycle power plant (350MW), the Tanjung Bin coal-fired power plant (700MW x 3 units), the Jimah coal-fired power plant (700MW x 2 units), and the Port Dickson 2 gas-fired combined cycle power plant (750MW) - and the total generating capacity of these power plants account for more than 20% of the Malay Peninsula's entire power capacity. This is also its second overseas order for an ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant, the first being the Talin ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant (800MW x 2 units) in Taiwan.