The Batang Ai Dam () is a
concrete-face rock-fill dam in
Batang Ai National Park in
Sarawak
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,
Malaysia
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. The power station comprises four
turbines
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, totalling the installed capacity to . The station is operated by
Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation. Preparations for the dam began in 1975, before the design was published in 1977. Construction started in 1982 with the river diversion work and the last turbine completed in 1985. The Batang Ai project, a relatively modest dam financed by the
Asian Development Bank
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The bank was establishe ...
, caused the displacement of approximately 3,000 people from 26 longhouses. These people have since been accommodated in the Batang Ai Resettlement Scheme to cultivate cocoa and rubber but the programme has not been successful.
See also
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List of power stations in Malaysia
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National Grid, Malaysia
National Grid, Malaysia () is the high-voltage electric power transmission network in Peninsular Malaysia. It is operated and owned by Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) by its Transmission Division. There are two other electrical grids in Sabah and S ...
References
Notes
* . Page 14 Table 2-1 Batang Ai Dam.
*Kaur, Amarhit. "A History of Forestry in Sarawak." Modern Asian Studies 32.1 (1998): 117–47.
External links
Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation
Hydroelectric power stations in Malaysia
Dams in Sarawak
Concrete-face rock-fill dams
Dams completed in 1985
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