Selangor speeds up nuclear energy plans with new partnerships and a shorter three-year timeline to diversify its power mix and boost resilience.
SHAH ALAM: The Selangor state government’s efforts to explore nuclear energy will be accelerated through collaboration with several agencies and international partners to diversify the state’s energy sources.
Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said the move is crucial to address potential energy crises and ensure the state remains resilient in terms of energy supply and consumption, without excessive reliance on imports.
“This means Selangor’s energy mix must be diversified. We cannot rely solely on gas or coal. Solar, hydrogen and possibly biodiesel must play a more significant role and efforts to develop these sources must be expedited,” he said at a special press conference on Selangor’s preparedness strategy in addressing the West Asia crisis, held at Wisma Dewan Negeri Selangor, here today.
Amirudin said that initiatives announced under Budget 2026 to explore systems and Selangor’s readiness to build a nuclear power plant will also be accelerated.
“These initiatives include developing the ecosystem and strengthening the capabilities of our university students to produce local talent who understand this technology and can manage such facilities in the future,” he said.
Amirudin said the state government is also prepared to shorten the timeline to three years from five, starting this year, in collaboration with companies interested in developing nuclear energy in the future.
Earlier, he announced that the state government will launch the Selangor Resilience Strengthening Package this June, involving an allocation of RM130.42 million, which includes several short- and medium-term measures to help the public and industries cope with the global energy crisis.
Amirudin said that, at the initial stage, state administrative buildings will explore energy transition initiatives such as solar energy, battery storage technology, hydrogen energy and energy efficiency measures.
In addition, through its subsidiary Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS), Worldwide Holdings has completed a mini hydrogen plant capable of supplying energy to 12,900 homes in Kerling, Hulu Selangor.
Amirudin said the operations of two waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, or incinerators, in Jeram, Kuala Selangor and Tanjung Dua Belas, Kuala Langat, will be launched before June.
“In the near term, I will launch the WTE plants in Jeram and Tanjung Dua Belas so that waste collection and management systems can generate energy instead of relying solely on landfill sites,” he said.
The sanitary landfill sites in Jeram and Tanjung Dua Belas will have capacities to process and dispose of 3,000 tonnes and 2,000 tonnes of waste per day, respectively.
Both sites will be equipped with WTE plants and other supporting facilities. They will be allocated a combined 90 megawatts (MW) of energy capacity approved by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Energy Commission.
The allocation makes Selangor the first state in Malaysia to secure capacity for WTE project development.
