Experts in energy and clean energy suggest renewable energy businesses take the opportunity
Informa Markets, an organiser for the ASEAN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY WEEK (ASE), ASEAN’s largest and most comprehensive renewable energy, environmental and energy efficiency exhibition, in collaboration with the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (JGSEE), organised a Webinar on “Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the ASEAN Energy Sector” brain storming ideas from experts in […]
BCPG cuts capital spending for 2020
SET-listed BCPG, a renewable power generation arm under Bangchak Corporation, has cut capital expenditures for this year to between 8-15 billion baht, says president and chief executive Bundit Sapianchai. The amount was initially set at 20 billion baht in February, but because of the impact of lockdown measures, particularly travel restrictions, the reduced spending is […]
Renewable energy giants in Thailand forecast big rise in profits
BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): Thai renewable energy generators BCPG and TPI Polene Power forecast their profits will grow this year despite the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Thai renewable energy generators BCPG and TPI Polene Power forecast their profits will grow this year despite the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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 […]
