Egat puts together delay plan for SPPs
State-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) plans to discuss the possibility of delaying the commercial operation dates (COD) of small power producer (SPP) plants. The SPPs currently under development by private firms in Thailand have a total capacity of 8,765 megawatts and the firms have already signed power purchase agreements with the state grid.
Striving for a greener future
While Germany transitions to a low-carbon, nuclear-free future, it is working to encourage other countries, including Thailand, to jump on the environmental bandwagon. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is training energy officers nationwide under a partial coronavirus lockdown to fight climate change. It is working in 120 countries to promote international cooperation in […]
Isaan Mekong basin network concerns the Sanakham hydropower push
Amidst the spreading of the Coronavirus 2019 in every corner of the world, the government in each country, as well as the departments, organizations, and other related parties are vigorously collaborating in solving the problem with a hope of surviving the disaster that is impacting the human race.
‘Tesla of Thailand’ keeps factories running in virus lockdown
Thailand’s biggest electric-vehicle venture has stayed mostly in gear during the Covid-19 pandemic, with Energy Absolute Plc (EA) ontinuing construction on a lithium-ion battery plant and vehicle development. The company’s EV-boat prototypes are now being river-tested.
Thai-Cambodian talks on disputed oil fields expected to resume
PHNOM PENH: Negotiations on oil and gas development in the long-contested overlapping claims in the Gulf of Thailand between Cambodia and Thailand will resume soon after the viral pandemic ends, according to a Cambodian Ministry of Mines and Energy official. Cheap Sour, the director-general of the General Department of Petroleum, said the countries had not […]
B.Grimm’s solar project sees 20 percent complete
Thailand-based Energy Company B.Grimm Power said its solar project in Cambodia is 20 percent complete after the firm took over the project from a local power company late last year. B.Grimm completed the acquisition of local company Ray Power Supply Co Ltd last November for $300,000.
Blockchain eyed for palm oil
The Energy Ministry has ordered the Energy Business Department to discuss with Thai oil traders the prospect of using blockchain to facilitate palm oil trade. A blockchain system would cut out the middleman between palm planters and palm oil mills, in theory allowing planters to sell the commodity at higher prices.
US oil price faces 2nd decrease below zero
The US benchmark oil price could fall below zero for a second time this year, signalling that global oil stocks are nearing full capacity, says one expert. Manoon Siriwan, an independent energy expert, said a second drop below zero for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude may occur soon because oil storage capacity in the US is […]
