Thailand

Myanmar is hoping to retain 200 million cubic feet per day of natural gas from the 1 billion cubic feet per day it exports to Thailand.

New names emerged at this year's awards held in Thailand.

A three-day power conference and exhibition will wrap up October 5 at the Challenger Hall 1, Impact Exhibition & Convention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.The conference highlights include the joint plenary discussion on strategy and technology trends for a power hungry region, panel discussions on current power developments in finance and investment and on fuel as a driver for choices in power generation as well as POWER-GEN Asia 2012 summary session.At the opening ceremony last October 3, Dr. Norkun Sitthiphong (permanent secretary of the Thailand’s Ministry of Energy), Pongdith Potchana (deputy governor of Corporate Social Responsibility, EGAT, Thailand), and Darryl Wilson (president and chief executive officer of GE Power and Water Aero Products, USA) were invited as presenters/lecturers.Among the topics discussed during the said meet were Steam Turbine Modernization, Emerging Energy Trends, Boiler Modernization, Gas Turbine Fuel Flexibility, Generation Portfolio Choices, Converting Waste-to-Energy Plants from Waste Destruction to Waste Utilization, Generator Life Cycle Technology, Combined Heat and Power, Managing Risks in the Power Sector, and IPP Market Focus, among others. (by Rogelio Constantino Medina)

Thailand's Sunny Bangchak, a 44MW PV plant, has been connected and can now help mitigate 32,000 tons of CO2 emissions.

Thailand and the European Union continue joint efforts to enhance renewable energy development with a two-day seminar.

Myanmar's clean coal plant to be built at Dawei special economic zone may now push through with Thailand and Japan providing loans.

Thailand's goal of utilizing clean sources of energy for about a quarter of the country's energy needs by 2021 got thesupport of the IFC.

B Grimm will earmark Bt75 billion for power-plant expansion and other energy projects in Thailand over the next seven years.

Wood Group GTS, GDF SUEZ and Glow SPP11 have extended a term maintenance agreement to include two additional GE Frame 6B gas turbines located at Glow SPP11 Company Limited's power plant in Rayong, Thailand.

Thailand's largest energy company, PTT Public Company Ltd, bids to diversify away from oil and gas for power generation and into coal.

SPCG Plc announced its completion of 30 megawatts of sun-powered capacity.

Thai villagers are blocking the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand from buying electricity to be generated by a hydropower dam being built in Laos.

Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding is looking to invest in two or three power plants in Myanmar, excluding the Dawei project.

The Myanmar electric power authorities signed an MoU with the Toyo-Thai Corporation on conducting feasibility study for a natural-gas-fired and combined cycle power plant.

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand will build an 800MW coal-fired power plant worth initially Bt60 billion in Krabi.

Thailand underpinned its credentials as a leader in the Asian power sector for renewable energy by introducing a comprehensive package of adder rates for renewable energy technologies in 2007, and currently offers incentives for biomass/biogas, solar (thermal and photovoltaic), wind and mini/micro hydropower projects. Adder rates are available for VSPPs (Very Small Power Producers, producing up to 10 mW) and all adder rates except for hydropower are available for SPPs (Small Power Producers, producing from 10mW up to 90 mW). The adder rates are payable in addition to the normal price of electricity paid to VSPPs and SPPs. Adder rates for solar and wind projects apply for ten years and adder rates for other renewable energy projects apply for seven years. Renewable technology                            Adder rate (Baht/kW hour)* Biomass/biogas (>1 MW / up to1 MW)                          0.30 / 0.50 Hydro (50-200kW/<50kW)                                            0.80 / 1.50 Waste (landfill, digestion/thermal)                                 2.50 / 3.50 Wind (> 50kW /up to 50 kW)                                         3.50 / 4.50 Solar (Thermal and photovoltaic)                                      6.50                                                                                                       * 1 USD = 31.6 Baht, July 2012 Additional adders are also available for projects located in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat (where civil unrest has received consistent media coverage for several years) and for projects which replace electricity produced by diesel generators. Additional adder rates (Baht/kW hour):