The Bakun Hydroelectric Power Station is located on the Balui River in Sarawak. Upstream is the Muro hydroelectric power station. Bakun Hydroelectric Power Station has an installed capacity of 8 x 300,000 kilowatts and a nominal reservoir capacity of 44 billion. cubic meters, exceeding The Three Gorges Hydroelectric Power Station has a storage capacity of 39 billion cubic meters. Known as the “Three Gorges” project of Southeast Asia. The main civil engineering project (EPC project) of the Bakun Hydropower Station was won on 8 October 2002 by the Malaysia-China Hydropower Joint Venture consisting of China Hydropower Corporation and a local company in Malaysia. This is the largest hydropower project in Malaysia to date.
At the same time, this project is the largest installed capacity hydropower plant currently undertaken by Sinohydro overseas, and the largest ac hydroelectric power stationstorage capacity currently undertaken by Sinohydro. The power plant was constructed using panel rock dam technology. The dam is 205 meters high, second only to the 230-meter-high stone dam of the Shuibuya Hydropower Station in Hubei, China, and ranks second in the world among similar stone dams. The power plant is equipped with 8 generators with a total installed capacity of 2.4 million kilowatts and an annual electricity production of approximately 17 billion kilowatt hours. The electricity produced can not only meet the needs of industrial production and civil use in Shazhou. , but the Maldives government is also preparing to build submarine cables to transport its electricity to western Malaysia.