Sarawak has started supplying electricity to Sabah two days ago, says premier

BINTULU, Dec 6 2025: Sarawak has started supplying 30 mega watts (MW) of  power to Sabah two days ago, said Premier Abang Johari Openg today.

Caption: Abang Johari Openg says Sarawak has been exporting electricity to West Kalimantan since 2026 

“Now we can establish the Borneo grid because we are also supplying power to Kalimantan,” he said in his speech at the signing of signing of  the Shareholders’ Agreement  between PMB Aluminium Sdn Bhd and  Bintulu Capital Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bintulu Development Authority  (BDA). 

Sarawak has been exporting 100 to 200MW of electricity since 2016 through the West Kalimantan Interconnection.

He said Sarawak, through Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB), has investment on hydro-electrict project in North Kalimantan and “in terms of energy production, we are there.”

The supply of power to Sabah is done through the transmission line connection from Miri to Lawas under the Northern Grid Extension project.

The supply is from the Lawas substation to the Mengalong substation in Sabah via a 34-km-long, 275-kilovolt (kV) transmission line.

On August 6, 2021, Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) and Syarikat SESCO Berhad (SESCO), a subsidiary of Sarawak Energy signed a Power Exchange Agreement and an Interconnection Agreement.

The agreements would pave the way for an initial export of 30MW for a term of 15 years via a 31km 275kV double circuit transmission line which would run from Lawas in Sarawak to Mengalong in Sabah.

The Power Exchange Agreement and Interconnection Agreement were signed on behalf of SESB by its chief cxecutive officer  Abdul Nasser Abdul Wahid while  Sharbini Suhaili, group chief executive officer for Sarawak Energy signed on behalf of SESCO.