Lumina Nova's inaugural development programme is a coordinated, multi-phase deployment of off-grid green-energy digital infrastructure — anchored in Perak and structured to extend across Malaysia as the programme matures. Built in sequence. Designed to prove and scale the closed-loop model.
The Kolam Programme is Lumina Nova's lead infrastructure development effort: a series of off-grid floating solar, energy storage, and compute facilities deployed across underutilised water bodies in Perak. Each facility in the programme is engineered to the same closed-loop design principles, structured within the same institutional governance framework, and financed within a unified capital approach.
The programme is organised as a portfolio rather than a collection of individual projects. This structure reflects a deliberate choice: we believe the economics of off-grid digital infrastructure emerge most clearly when facilities are developed within a coordinated programme, sharing engineering standards, operating protocols, supply chain relationships, and institutional capital structures. A portfolio approach produces better capital terms, faster operational learning, and stronger aggregate investor positioning than a project-by-project approach could deliver.
The programme is anchored in Perak for specific geographic and policy reasons. The state hosts an exceptional concentration of former tin mining lakes and underutilised water bodies suitable for floating solar deployment. Perak's industrial positioning aligns with Malaysia's broader energy transition and digital economy priorities. And the state's institutional landscape — including government-linked entities with renewable energy and infrastructure development mandates — provides a natural partnership ecosystem for programme-scale development.
As the programme matures, Lumina Nova expects to extend Kolam facilities into additional Malaysian states where comparable water-body, industrial, and policy conditions support the model. The programme is structured to accommodate geographic expansion without disruption to portfolio-level engineering, governance, or capital discipline.
At full deployment, the Kolam Programme represents meaningful scale in Malaysia's energy transition and digital infrastructure agenda — contributing renewable generation capacity, integrated storage, and AI-optimised compute to national targets set under the NETR and AI Nation 2030 framework.
Four principles distinguish the Kolam Programme from a conventional project-by-project development approach. Together, they define how Lumina Nova expects to operate at scale.
Every facility in the programme is engineered to a single standard for floating solar deployment, battery storage integration, compute hall specification, and facility-level operating infrastructure. Components are standardised across sites where scale economies justify it, and adapted to site-specific conditions only where local requirements demand it. This standard is refined as operating data accumulates, and updates are applied across the programme portfolio.
Facilities are commissioned in sequence, not in parallel. The programme's lead facility is advanced to full commercial operation before subsequent facilities proceed to construction. Twelve months of operating data from each commissioned site informs the design, capital structure, and operating plan of the site that follows. This approach extends programme timelines but materially reduces correlated execution risk across the portfolio.
Each facility in the programme operates under the same governance framework for institutional partners, Shariah compliance, treasury management, and operational reporting. Capital partners engage with a consistent structure across the programme, regardless of which individual facility their commitment supports. This consistency is intentional — it reduces transaction cost for institutional partners and produces a portfolio-level track record rather than a collection of unrelated project histories.
The programme is structured to accommodate capital at the portfolio level as well as at the individual facility level. This allows institutional partners to commit to the programme's thesis rather than underwriting a single site. It also allows the programme to absorb site-specific variation — in COD timing, in capacity, in partner mix — without disrupting the aggregate capital story presented to programme-level investors.
The Kolam Programme is in active development. The lead facility is under active institutional engagement, with feasibility and engineering progressing in parallel with capital structuring. Subsequent facilities are at earlier stages of site characterisation, feasibility analysis, and partner engagement — each sequenced behind the lead facility in accordance with the programme's staged deployment principle.
Institutional capital conversations, operating partner discussions, and strategic relationships supporting the programme are ongoing. The programme is structured to accept commitments at both portfolio and facility level, and Lumina Nova is open to conversations with partners whose mandates align with Malaysian green infrastructure, Shariah-compliant long-duration assets, and the digital economy transition.
| Position | Status Stage | Site Characteristic | Capital Stage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facility 01 | Active engagement | Former tin mining lake · Perak | Lead capital engaged |
| Facility 02 | Feasibility | Former tin mining lake · Perak | Partner engagement opened |
| Facility 03 | Site characterisation | Water body · Perak | Early-stage |
| Facility 04 | Early-stage scoping | Water body under review · Perak | Early-stage |
Position labels are programme-internal. Site-specific details, timelines, and partner identities are shared only through formal engagement channels under appropriate confidentiality protections.
We do not publish site-specific timelines, capacity figures, or partner identities on public materials. These are shared directly with qualified partners through formal engagement channels.
At full programme deployment, the Kolam Programme is planned to deliver floating solar generation, long-duration energy storage, and compute capacity at a scale meaningful to Malaysia's energy transition and digital infrastructure agenda. Programme-level characteristics include:
Specific capacity, investment, and timeline details are provided to qualified capital and operating partners under appropriate confidentiality structures.
The Kolam Programme is the first application of Lumina Nova's closed-loop digital infrastructure model. It is not intended to be the last.
As the Kolam Programme reaches operating maturity, Lumina Nova expects to extend the model into further programme phases. The engineering standards, institutional governance structures, operating protocols, and capital relationships established during the Kolam phase are designed to transfer directly to subsequent programme phases, producing compounding benefits across each successive deployment.
The Kolam Programme is the proof. The platform is the ambition.
A single programme. Four facilities in sequence. A replicable model for Malaysian digital infrastructure.
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