Power outages in Malaysia
Several major power outages have occurred in the country of Malaysia.
1992 blackout[edit]
On 29 September 1992, Malaysia suffered a long and total power blackout caused by lightning striking a transmission facility and causing a rolling failure in the transmission and distribution system.[1]
1996 blackout[edit]
A widespread power outage in Peninsular Malaysia began at 17:17 on 3 August 1996. The states of Peninsular Malaysia – including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Putrajaya, Johor, Melaka, and Negeri Sembilan – lost power for several hours.
A transmission line near Sultan Ismail Power Station in Paka, Terengganu tripped at 5:17pm causing all power stations in Peninsular Malaysia to collapse resulting in a massive power failure. Supply was back to normal by 11pm.[2]
The weekend power outage was the third in the past four years, and the worst since In the wake of that capacity-related stumble, the government moved to allow five independent power producers to enter the electricity-generation business. After this blackout, utility giant Tenaga Nasional's stock fell considerably.[3]
2003 blackout[edit]
The southern Peninsular Malaysia electricity blackout crisis affected the southern part of Peninsular Malaysia, including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Malacca and Johor due to a power failure. The 5 states (including Kuala Lumpur) had been affected for 5 hours from 10.00 am local time (02:00 UTC) to 3.00 pm (07:00 UTC) on September 4, costing industries $13.8 million [1]
2005 blackout[edit]
The northern Peninsular Malaysia blackout crisis was a power outage in Malaysia in 2005 where many states of Malaysia's northern peninsular, including Perak, Penang, Kedah, and Perlis had no electricity owing to a fault of the main cable transmission line grid near Serendah, Selangor.[4]
2013 blackouts[edit]
On June 27, 2013, another severe blackout was reported during peak hour ~5.36pm at Sarawak which is claimed to be originated from Bakun Dam causing a trip for the rest of the generators across the grid resulting of severe traffic congestion in the major cities.
In July 2013, several power outages also occurred in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
On July 31, 2013, Puchong encountered a power outage from around 8 PM.[5] During the Puchong power outage of July 31, 2013, a TNB spokesman said: "Our men are on the ground to rectify the situation. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
2022 blackout[edit]
On July 27, 2022, much of the northern parts of Peninsular Malaysia, Klang Valley, Pahang and Negeri Sembilan have reported widespread blackout from 12:40 PM onwards.[6]
Investigations by TNB revealed that a faulty appliance in Yong Peng North Main Entry Substation (PMU) have triggered the power failure at 12:39 PM.[7] The fault have caused the loss of 10% electrical supply for entire Peninsula Malaysia at 2.2GW.[8]
The power outage affected various services including RapidKL trains, KLIA main terminal, traffic lights, and network providers like TM Unifi and Digi.[9][10][11] It lasted for up to several hours as power was gradually restored through repairs. Most areas except Klang Valley have the electricity restored within 20 to 40 minutes.[12] The power restoration were completed at 3:02 PM the same day.[8]
2023 Johor Bahru checkpoint blackout[edit]
On December 6, 2023, Sultan Iskandar Building, the land checkpoint in Johor Bahru end of the Johor–Singapore Causeway, experience 11 hours of power outage.[13] A scheduled maintenance work on the night of December 5 turned awry when backup generators broke down, causing extended power outage until the morning of December 6.[14] The blackout caused long queues in the Johor checkpoint and officers on duty had to carry out immigration clearances manually in the dark. The power outage created traffic jam in Singapore side of the Causeway and Immigration and Checkpoints Authority warned travellers of "tailback from Malaysia". Johor Menteri Besar, Onn Hafiz Ghazi, said that the power outage was an embarrassment to Johor.
References[edit]
- ^ Privatizing Electric Power in Malaysia and Thailand Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine, doi:10.1002/pad.267
- ^ "Major blackouts in Malaysia". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ Appell, Douglas (1996-08-06). "HEARD IN ASIA Weekend Blackout Spells Trouble for Tenaga Power". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2009-05-12. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ "Power outage may affect Tenaga's bid for tariff rise". Asia Africa Intelligence Wire. January 15, 2005.
- ^ TNB taking steps to rectify Puchong power outage-New Straits Times
- ^ "Klang Valley hit by major blackout". Free Malaysia Today. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ TheVibes.com [@thevibesnews] (July 27, 2022). "UPDATE @ 3.13pm @Tenaga_Nasional confirms that this incident - at the Yong Peng North substation - was the cause of the massive power outage experienced earlier in various parts of the country. TNB adds that power was fully restored at 3.02pm. https://t.co/3Jukur84Fr" (Tweet). Retrieved 2022-12-21 – via Twitter.
- ^ a b "TNB Careline". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ "[UPDATED] Several areas across peninsula suffer blackouts, traffic lights in KL down". The Vibes. 2022-07-27. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ Wong, Abel (2022-07-27). "Some Rapid KL LRT lines, mobile Internet providers & traffic lights are affected by the blackout". TechNave. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ "#Blackout: Digi, TM Unifi say some users may experience service disruption". The Star. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ Noorshahrizam, Shahrin Aizat (2022-07-27). "TNB: Power outage caused by national transmission cable trip". Malay Mail. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ "'Embarrassment to the state', says Johor chief minister after hours-long blackout hits Causeway checkpoint".
- ^ "Power restored at Johor land checkpoint after hours-long outage disrupts Malaysia-Singapore travel".