Pergau Dam

Pergau Dam
Pergau Dam
	Pergau Dam in Kelantan, Malay Peninsular and Malaysia Pergau Dam (Peninsular Malaysia) Pergau Dam (Malaysia)
Country	Malaysia
Coordinates	5°37′30″N101°42′11″E / 5.62500°N 101.70306°E
Status	Operational
Construction began	1991
Opening date	2003
Dam and spillways
Height (foundation)	75 m (246 ft)
Reservoir
Active capacity	62,500 million liters
Surface area	4.3 km2 (1.7 sq mi)

Last updated May 29, 2024

Pergau station, formally known as Stesen Janaelektrik Sultan Ismail Petra, is a hydroelectric power station in Kuala Yong, Jeli District, Kelantan, Malaysia.

Power station

The power station is an underground hydroelectric power station, using 4 turbines each with 150 MW of installed capacity. The station is operated by Tenaga Nasional.

Overview

The construction, which was undertaken by Balfour Beatty ^[1] and Cementation International. Construction started in 1991 and was completed in 2000. In 2003 the dam was officially opened by Sultan Ismail Petra the Sultan of Kelantan. The dam's power station was named after the Sultan as the "Sultan Ismail Petra Hydro Electric Power Station".^[2]

Technical specifications

Power Intake Structure - 4 bays.
Spillway- concrete weir with chute and flip bucket.
Power Tunnels - 4 tunnels.
Underground powerhouse
With 4 penstocks to power-trains comprising 4 turbines of 150MW each, 4 air-cooled generators of 180MVA each and 4 transformers of 180MVA each.

Notable facts

Pergau Power Station has the second largest hydroelectric generation installed capacity in Malaysia, after the 2400MW installed capacity at Bakun Hydroelectric Project in Sarawak, East Malaysia.

Controversy

The Pergau dam has been called "the most controversial project in the history of British aid". At the insistence of Margaret Thatcher and with the support of her Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, the excessively costly dam was financed with the money of British taxpayers in order to secure a major arms deal, despite objections raised by civil servants in the British Foreign Office.^[3]^[4] After two parliamentary inquiries, protests by the World Development Movement and intense media coverage, in a landmark judgement the aid for Pergau was declared unlawful in 1994 in the case R v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, ex parte World Development Movement Ltd [1995] 1 All ER 611.^[5]^[6]^[7] According to Sir Tim Lankester, a former British civil servant involved in the affair, the economics of the project was "unambiguously bad" since Malaysia could have produced electricity at much lower cost from other sources.^[8]

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References

↑ "BBC News - Middle East - Turkish dam gets UK support".
↑ Karl Hack, "Decolonisation and the Pergau Dam affair." History Today (Nov 1994), 44#11 pp 9-12.
↑ The Pergau Dam ‘Arms for Aid’ Scandal, sites.tufts.edu
↑ The Pergau dam affair: will an aid for arms scandal ever happen again?, 12 Dec 2012, Claire Provost, The Guardian
↑ New Scientist:Britain's other dam SCANDAL, 26 February 1994
↑ Lankester, Tim (2012). "The Politics and Economics of Britain's Foreign Aid. The Pergau Dam Affair". Routledge. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
↑ World Development Movement. "Tied aid and development: Pergau Dam" . Retrieved 16 November 2012.
↑ The Economist (17 November 2012). "Aid and trade: Dam lies. A look at the underbelly of foreign aid" . Retrieved 16 November 2012.