Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with TNB Power Generation Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Malaysian national utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad, to “further collaborate on CO₂ capture technology implementation to thermal power plants in Malaysia”.

The intention is that Toshiba will begin to install carbon capture and storage technology at a range of TNB’s coal-fired power plants (for instance the 2 GW Jimah East Power Coal-Fired Power Plant, which came online in 2019) beginning in September of this year. Toshiba has been working in Malaysia since 1968, having delivered 28 steam turbines and 4 hydro turbines, and spokesman Shinya Fujitsuka said of the new collaboration that it “will enable us to contribute to Malaysia’s decarbonisation goals”.

The country has a goal of acheiving  net-zero by 2050.