Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Power Station ({{langx, ms, Stesen Janaelektrik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz) is a

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the electricity generation, generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electr ...

, which fires natural gas, bunker oil and coal, located in

Kapar Kapar (Chinese: 加埔) is a town in Klang District, Selangor, Malaysia. It is 17 km (≈11 miles) from Klang city via federal route 5. The Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Power Station is located not far from the town. The Kapar River which flo ...

Klang District The Klang District is a district in Selangor, Malaysia. It is located in the western part of Selangor. It borders the Kuala Selangor District to the north, Petaling to the east, Kuala Langat district to the south and Malacca Straits to the west. T ...

Selangor Selangor ( ; ), also known by the Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the e ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. It was opened in March 1987 by then

Sultan of Selangor Sultan of Selangor (سلطان سلاڠور) is the title of the constitutional ruler of Selangor, Malaysia who is the head of state and head of the Islamic religion in Selangor. The current monarch, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah ascended the t ...

Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj ( Jawi: ; 8 March 1926 – 21 November 2001) was the Sultan of Selangor from 1960, and the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia) from 1999, un ...

, and the station was named after him. In terms of power producing capacity, it remains the largest power station in Malaysia, despite the commissioning of several new power stations with 700MW steam turbines. It is also the first coal-fired power plant in the country. Kapar Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd is a

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company between

Tenaga Nasional Berhad Tenaga Nasional Berhad (, abbreviated as TNB; TENA, ), also known as Tenaga Nasional or simply Tenaga, is the Malaysian multinational electricity company and is the only electric utility company in Peninsular Malaysia and also the largest pu ...

(TNB) and Malakoff Berhad, with an equity holding of 60% TNB and 40% Malakoff Berhad. Kapar Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd (KEV) owns, operates and maintains SSAAPS since 9 July 2004, after successful acquisition of the power plant from TNB. The plant was designed by

Minconsult Minconsult is a private limited engineering consultancy in Malaysia. Established in 1962, the company specializes in multi-disciplinary engineering and project management. Capable of providing a wide range of engineering consultancy services in t ...

, a Malaysian engineering consultancy.

Facilities

KEV SSAAPS has four generating facilities that can produce 2420 MW. *GF1 consists of 2 units, a

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and a

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, with 300 MW each using natural gas and bunker oil. *GF2 consists of 2 units, a boiler and a steam turbine with 300 MW each using natural gas, bunker oil and coal. *GF3 consists of 2 units, a boiler and a steam turbine with 500 MW each using natural gas, bunker oil and coal. *GF4 consists of 2 units, a

gas turbine A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of Internal combustion engine#Continuous combustion, continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the power-producing part (known as the gas gene ...

with 110 MW using natural gas and distillate fuel. GF4 has been decommissioned after its PPA ended in December 2019. The power station ash pond is a sanctuary for migratory

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that stop over en route from

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References

Kapar EnergyTNB page on SSAAS Power Station
Klang District Coal-fired power stations in Malaysia Natural gas-fired power stations in Malaysia Buildings and structures in Selangor 1985 establishments in Malaysia