KOTA KINABALU: Converting energy source to natural gas will contribute towards a cleaner and healthier environment.
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai said that using the other alternative energy source which is compressed natural gas will benefit both industry and environment.
He said natural gas is a much cheaper and environmentally friendlier alternative fuel.
“The active promotion of natural gas usage is in line with the government’s five-fuel policy which is to avoid over dependence on a single energy source,” said Dr Yee.
He added that with more than 12 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, Sabah is able to fuel the growth of various industries, large and small, over few decades.
“Just to give you of how much gas reserves can do, on average, 1, 000 MW gas-fired combine cycle power plant requires 1.1 trillion cubic feet of gas over a period of 25 years.
“The current total capacity of Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd is 866.4 MW, so now you can work out the scale and magnitude of what the little reserves we have can do for us,” he said.
He was delivering his keynote address when launching the talk on ‘Alternative Energy Source – Compressed Natural Gas at Wisma Bandaraya here yesterday.
The seminar was jointly organised by Sabah Energy Corporation Sdn Bhd (SEC), Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) Sabah branch and AspekErajuta Sdn Bhd.
Additionally, he said that SEC Sdn Bhd is a government-linked company entrusted to carry out the distribution of natural gas to local industrial and commercial users in Sabah and the Federal territories of Labuan.
“SEC has embarked on an innovative way to bring natural gas to the small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) through ‘Virtual Pipeline System’,” he added.
Meanwhile, IEM Sabah branch chairman Ir Lo Chong Chiun said thatIEM has tailored a mixture of speakers from SEC which are the compress natural gas distributor, from machinery supplier and engineering service provider.
“It was against the backdrop of the oil and gas industry landing on our shores in recent years that we organise this function for those who are interested in alternative energy as well as the oil and gas industry in Sabah,” said Lo.
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