Work to build Bakun power towers begins

MIRI: The project to construct hundreds of kilometres of transmission towers to channel electricity from the Bakun hydro-electric dam in central Sarawak to the rest of the state has begun in earnest.

The massive transmission towers will carry the power cables which will send electricity from the dam in the Kapit division — in the heart of central Sarawak — to the Bintulu division along the coastal belt of central Sarawak and then southwards to the Kuching division.