Through 99 years

THE YEAR: 1894. The place: Rawang. Electrical power first made its appearance in Malaysia 99 years ago when two tin miners, Loke Yew and Thamboosamy Pillai, used an electric generator to pump water from their tin mine. A year later in May 1895, the Kuala Lumpur Railway Station was installed with electric lighting - the first of its kind in KL. From then on, there was no turning back. The year 1900 marked the operation of the first power station in the Peninsula. This was the Sempam Hydro Power Station in Raub, Pahang. It was built by the Raub-Australian Gold Mining Co Ltd. The other states soon followed. Penang was first electrified in 1904 with the commissioning of the Sungai Pinang Power…