SOURCES OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY

Electricity can be produced melelui a variety of ways and resources. There is a wide variety of generation plants such as gas, plant plant tarbin tarbin steam and diesel plants that use fossil resources such as oil, gas or coal as fuel. Electricity can also be produced with hydropower, wind, waves, nuclear, solar beam and various other sources. Energy sources used for electricity generation should be easily obtained, suitable and cheaper and does not cause any harm or threaten lives and the environment.

In Malaysia, the electricity is generated with fossil fuel sources such as mimyak, natural gas, coal, and hydropower. Currently, approximately 60 percent of electricity generated with natural resources. The remainder use other resources such as oil, coal and hydropower.

Natural gas reserves in the nagara is believed to be able to cater for up to 50-60 years, if its use is controlled by the ideally, petroleum resources is expected to cater for a period of 20-30 years old. Other than that, we don't have a lot of coal resources.

In the meantime, almost all hydro energy, which is a type of renewable energy source, in Peninsular Malaysia was used even though there are many more hydro potential in Sabah and Sarawak which have not been explored, the cost of the construction of the hydro station in the Interior as well as the cost of sending electricity from Sabah or Sarawak from Peninsular Malaysia is too high.