Just as I thought, there are not going to be any submarine cables from the Bakun Dam to the peninsula.
Check out this Edge report here.
It was always going to be a risky and expensive proposition to lay submarine cables across the South China Sea even though the technology is there. The project, had it gone ahead, would have been the world’s longest undersea power transmission link; it would have entered uncharted territory, an expensive journey into the unknown.
The whole rationale, during the Mahathir administration, for building this jinxed dam was to supply power to the peninsula.
Now that the original justification for the dam is no longer there, what are they going to do with all the power from the Bakun Dam? Has Tenaga now realised that Bakun could be choked with sedimentation in a few years? Check out the warnings here. And look at this lamentation from Belaga over the social and environmental cost of Bakun.
