Brief History
Electricity started in Sabah as early as 1910 supplied by 3 separate organisations. In 1957 these three organisations combined to form North Borneo Electricity Board. When North Borneo joined Malaysia in 1963 and changed its name to Sabah, this entity was renamed Sabah Electricity Board. On 1st of September 1998 Sabah Electricity Board was privatised and became Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd.

About the Company
SESB generates, transmits and distributes electricity. It is the only power utility company in Sabah supplying electricity to 413,983 customers distributed over a wide area of 74,000 sq.km. 82.8% of the customers are domestic customers contributing only 28.8% of the sale. The total generation capacity is 866.4 MW, 50.3% of the total units generated are purchased from the independent power producers.

The SESB installed capacity (excluding IPP) of the Sabah Grid which supplies electricity for major towns from Federal Territory Labuan to Tawau is 430.9 MW and the maximum demand is 642 MW.

The East Coast Grid 132kV Transmission Line connecting the major towns in the East Coast has an installed capacity of 333.02MW and the maximum demand is 203.3MW.

The forecast demand growth of electricity is in a region of 7.7% per annum up to the year 2010. In order to support the growing demand, various generation, transmission and distribution projects will be implemented.

A fully integrated grid connecting the West Coast Grid to the East Coast Grid was completed on 28 July 2007, and about 90% of the customers are now connected to this integrated grid.

Rationale of Logo
The Logo depicts a stylised three-pin plug in a red circular background. The slanting plug denotes continuous electricity supply through innovation, technology driven work force and good work habits, whilst the red circular background indicates improvement in providing services to the customers... the foundation of SESB's corporate philosophy in Powering Sabah and Federal Territory Labuan into the New Millennnium.

Generation

1. Number of Station - 34 (including 6 IPP exluding BELB stations)
2. Power Generated For FY 2008 up to December 2007 - 543.0 GWh (SESB) & 815.4 GWh (IPP)

SESB Plant			IPP Plant
Type of Plant	Installed Capacity (MW)		Type of Plant	Installed Capacity (MW)
Hydro	66.00		ARL	50.00
Steam Turbine	15.00		Powertron	136.00
GT Gas	97.00		Serudong Power	37.50
DG Diesel (Major)	123.10		SPC Energy Services	34.07
GT Diesel	90.00		Stratavest	60.00
DG Diesel (Minor)	39.46		Sepanggar Bay Power Corporation(SBPC)	72.00
Mini Hydro	8.34		Total	389.57
DG Diesel (Rural)	3.02
Total	441.92

Fuel Type	Generated Units (kWh)	Percentage
IPP (kWh)	815,378,520	60%
SESB - Diesel (kWh)	90,293,053	7%
SESB - Gas (kWh)	264,722,800	19%
SESB - Hydro (kWh)	187,984,669	14%
Total	1,358,379,042	100.00%

Transmission
The interconnected system comprises West Coast Power grid and East Coast Power Grid. The transmission circuit length (in circuit-kilometres) as at December 2007 are shown below.

Length of Overhead Line	Circuit-km
275 kV	492
123 kV	860.86
132 kV (EC)	659.14
66 kV (WC)	100.34
Length of Under Ground cable	Circuit-km
132 kV	37.90
66 kV	22.16
Length of Submarine cable	Circuit-km
132 kV	29
Number of Main Intake Substation
275 kV	2
123 kV	15
132 kV	9
66 kV	7

Distribution

Voltan	Talian		Bilangan Pencawang
	O/H (km)	U/G (km)
11kV	6566.4	855.3	5588
22kV	259	1	119
33kV	594.5	178.4	50
Total	7419.9	1034.7	5756

Sector	GWh	%
Domestic	116.32	31%
Commercial	145.50	39%
Industrial	107.16	29%
Public Lighting	4.73	1%
Total Consumption	295.07	100.00%

No. of customers as at August 2009: 413,983

1. Domestic - 82.8%
2. Commercial - 15.5%
3. Industrial - 0.7%
4. Public Lighting - 1%

Information System
SESB internal service provided to the commercial, engineering and services departments, in planning, acquisition, use and maintenance of Information System resources.

IS Main Infrastucture:-

• Platform - Sun Solaris with Windows Interface

• DBMS - Oracle

• ERP System - SAP R/3 including IS-U/CCS

• Modules Implemented - IS-U/CCS, General Ledger, Account Payable, Account Receivable, Asset Management, Cash Management, Budget Control, Project System, Human Resource, Plant Maintenance, Material Management, Fleet Management

• Other System Implemented - MOBIMAS, CRM, IPS, PUKAL, CMC-TCS-LGBnet, DOA-EDBMS, DISCON, Time Management

• Computer Operation - 24 hours x 7 days

• Network Infrastructure - 35 sites throughout Sabah and Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan connected to the main computer centre in Kota Kinabalu

Human Resource
No. of Employees as at 31 July 2009

(i) By Post Category

Service Classification	Total
Management	15
Executive	362
Non-Executive	2014
Total	2391

(ii) By Service Category

Service Classification	Total
MD's Office	40
Generation	516
Transmission	268
Distribution	1235
Major Project	38
System Planning	16
Finance	40
Procurement	65
Human Resource	29
Corporate Services	110
Information System	34
Total	2391

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