A green plant - for electricity

Set on a man-made island and bordered by marshes teeming with life, TNB Janamanjung is so clean that it has become a reference point for US corporation General Electric, says Shamsul

REACHING about 200m into the sky, the three exhaust stacks are imposing – even from kilometres away. They seem inactive while nearby chimneys spew puffs of white smoke. Beneath the chimneys, dark hills undulate.

But it’s all an illusion. The exhaust stacks are active. Their emissions have been so thoroughly cleaned of pollutants that nothing seems to be coming out of them. The plants are letting off steam, literally. It’s not smoke. And the dark hills are a million tonnes of coal.