Mini Hydro Power Plant

In general, the suitable mini-hydro projects would be those based on the run-off-the-river schemes of sizes of up from 1 MWatt to 10 MWatt to 30 MWatt in capacity. Exemption to the requirement that eligible mini-hydro projects should be run-off-river types should be given to dam-toe projects from water supply schemes.

A common issue in mini-hydro development is their remote locations. Although the potential can be quite high, feasible projects should be those within reasonable distance of around 10 km or less from the nearest points of interconnection.

Therefore, the scarcity of available data means there is a need to collect sufficient data to undertake an evaluation of the potential. Taking into account the paucity of data, and making an extremely conservative guesstimate of the potential, mini hydropower plant target of 490 MW is capable of being achieved by 2020.

Hydrology Study for Catchment Area

This is some of sample result of hydrology study was carried out to determine within the specific catchment area, what is available flow that can support the mini hydro  development. The reference discharge station is JPS river station 4218416 and 4019462, using 23 years of daily flows were extracted from this station from year 1973 to 2014. However, there are substantial data gaps and eventually about 9400 days of daily flow data were obtained. Flow   duration analysis was carried on the data. The estimated flow-duration curve for the stations are presented in the plot below;

current projects

Sg. Betau 3MWatt Hydropower Plant (Kuala Lipis, Pahang Darul Makmur)

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT STRUCTURE

project location plan