This visit was organized by Madam Jasronita under the subject of KEE3314 Power System Analysis with cooperation of Electric and Electronic Department, Faculty of Engineering and the IEEESB UPM. This visit is held on 8^th August to 9^th August 2004.There were 37 students and 3 lecturers involved in this visits.

The main objective of this visit is to increase the student knowledge on the generation and utilization theory of power system which had been learned. From this visit, it is also hope that it will clarify the connection between generation and analysis of power system in electrical system. Besides the objectives to clarify all the theory learned inn class, this visit also giving a chance to students to have experience about the socio economy and the culture of community in Cameron Highland.

In this visit, the Museum of Sultan Yussuf Power Station clarified about the chronology and history of hydroelectric station in out country. It was also helpful to understand with drawings, figures, and pictures of hydro stations which can be founded in their museum. There are also models showed how water from river along Titiwangsa range is collected and directed to the stations through dam and underground tunnel. Sultan Yussuf Power Station is operating to distribute electrical energy to consumers. Because of this station use hydro power to generate the electrical energy, so the time it takes to get the electrical energy is only 5 minutes after the generator is on. This is different than the thermal station which takes 24 hours after the generation part is on. This is because it takes time to produce steam. There are also stations which use it for the same purpose. So, Sultan Yussuf Power Station really applicable to operate a peak load station because it can patch the needs of the consumers of electrical energy in a short time with this as advance, it also become one of the first stations which supplied the capacity of energy to the national grid if there is failure in electrical energy system in Malaysia.

This visit is very helpful in understanding the real concept of power generation and utilization of a hydro station. The students will get the real experience of job in this working field of power generation and utilization.

Prepared by Nor Hasliza Abdul Rahman