No cut in power during Earth Hour, says TNB

KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) will continue to supply electricity during Earth Hour tomorrow.

Its president and chief executive officer Datuk Seri Che Khalib Mohamad Noh said some TNB consumers had thought that power supply would not be available during Earth Hour from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.

“We received numerous calls from concerned customers enquiring whether electricity supply would be turned off this Saturday,” he said in a statement yesterday.

He said although TNB would not be shutting down operations during Earth Hour, the corporation was nevertheless in support of the event.

Earth Hour is an annual event that World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) started in Sydney in 2007 to get households and businesses to turn off non-essential lights for an hour to raise awareness on climate change. So far, 2,848 cities, towns and municipalities in 84 countries have pledged support for Earth Hour 2009.

On the local front, they included the Government, various non-governmental organisations, corporations and landmarks such as KL Tower, Petronas Twin Towers and Penang Bridge.
The event aims to demonstrate unprecedented solidarity and provide a visual global mandate that will put the heat on world leaders meeting at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December to write and possibly sign a follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Treaty