Consultancy Project: Power Quality Baseline Study for Peninsular Malaysia
Duration: April 2010-February 2013
Tender Price: RM 3.4 million
Project Background
Power quality problems have been identified and recognized as early as in 1990 in Malaysia but the progress in managing the problems nationally has been quite slow. In early 2005, the Minister of Energy, Water and Communication have pointed out that standards and enforcement are among the major issues that have not been adequately addressed in power quality problems in Malaysia (CIRED 2005 conference).
Power quality standards provide guidelines; recommendations and limits to help achieve compatibility between end use equipment and the electricity supply system. In an effort to ensure wider acceptance of the standards, in 2007 the Energy Commission has made the standard as a guideline to be used by the industries voluntarily.
Malaysian Technical Committee on Power Quality was formed in the middle of 2000 and to date has produced nearly 30 Malaysian Standards on power quality by either total adoption or adaptation of foreign standards or IEC standards. Most of these standards have not been used in the Malaysian industries.
From the Energy Commission point of view, some standards need to be used in the regulations or codes (e.g. Grid Code, Distribution Code etc) and as such, may need to be made mandatory. Before these are done, it is prudent regulatory practice that a study be carried out to ascertain the environment or baseline level of power quality events and its impact on the customers, particularly in the industrial sector.
Project Objectives
The study is aims to achieve the following objectives:
- to validate the international standards applicability to Malaysian environment;
- to obtain baseline data on power quality events and sources of events through power quality monitoring programs and ascertaining power quality limits based on the results obtain;
- to estimate the economic loss to industry due to power quality events;
- to determine the standard utility and consumer reference impedance of the Malaysian electricity supply network.
- to determine the suitable period for implementation & enforcement of the regulations and standards.
