is an energy development company and a vertically integrated power utility with a vision to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for Sarawak by meeting the region's need for reliable and renewable energy—providing electricity to 3 million Sarawakians in urban and rural areas. Built on a foundation of almost 100 years of experience, Sarawak Energy's role is to provide reliable, safe, and competitively-priced power. The company's energy predominantly comes from Sarawak’s rich hydropower resources, making its energy supply environmentally friendly and sustainable. Sarawak Energy is the primary electricity provider in Sarawak, with an expanding consumer base of about 700,000 account holders throughout Sarawak and a growing multidisciplinary workforce of more than 5,200. The company is the largest employer of professional Sarawak talent. Sarawak Energy is now taking bold steps to support Sarawak’s goal of achieving developed status by 2030. In advancing the agenda of sustainable and continuous growth, a strategy roadmap is designed to consolidate, protect and optimise the value created from the transformation of a traditional utility into a corporate power house and digital utility of the future by focusing on excellence in operation and Health Safety Security and Environment, project delivery and talent management enabled by a high performance organisational culture.
History
Sarawak Energy's history began in 1932, with the formation of "Sarawak Electricity Supply Company", by the Brooke Administration, to operate public electricity supply within Sarawak. Prior to that, in 1921 an Electrical Section within the Public Works Department was set up to look after the public electricity supply. In 1962, under the Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation Ordinance 1962, the Sarawak Electricity Company was dissolved, and later created into a Corporation, known as Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation . In 1996, Sarawak Enterprise Corporation Berhad bought over 45% stake of the Corporation from the Sarawak Government. In 2005, SESCO was privatised and known as Syarikat SESCO Berhad, and bought over by Sarawak Energy Berhad. In January 2016, Sarawak began to export electricity from Sarawak to West Kalimantan, Indonesia through a 275kV interconnection operated by Sarawak Energy. This project is the first successful power trading project for Malaysia.
Generation capacity
It has 36 power stations, a total installed capacity of 1,315MW, comprising 5 per cent diesel engine, 25.6 per cent gas turbines, 36.5 per cent coal-fired power plant, 25 per cent Combined Cycle power station and 7.6 per cent hydro turbines throughout the state. The major towns are connected to via a 275/132kV State Transmission Grid. SESCO generates electricity mainly from two major types of plant; hydroelectric plants and thermal plants. Hydroelectric power plants
