KUALA LUMPUR, (PNA/Bernama) — Tenaga Nasional Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary, TNB Janamanjung Sdn Bhd, recently bagged two awards at the prestigious ASEAN Energy Awards 2013 held in Bali, Indonesia.
The company, in a statement, said the two awards were the ASEAN Best Practice in Coal Projects category, namely Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Quality Journey To Pass British Standard Institution Publicly Available Specification for Asset Management Certification.
The awards were received by TNB Chief Corporate Officer Datuk Roslan Ab Rahman.
TNB Janamanjung was the only Malaysian coal-fired power plant operator which competed for the awards.
For the CSR sub-category, it beat nine other operators from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
TNB Janamanjung currently has 2,100 megawatts generation capacity through three coal-fired power plants, of which, its generation capacity will increase by an additional 1,000 megawatts once its new plant is completed in 2015.
Incepted in 2000, the annual ASEAN Energy Award is a competition organised by the ASEAN Centre for Energy to recognize outstanding works in the areas of renewable energy development namely hydro, wind, biomass, geothermal and solar, as well as, best practices that contribute to energy efficiency in the region.