Egat seeks authorisation to build more power plants

• 8 years ago (2016-07-01)
• David Flin

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The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat ) has announced that it is asking the country’s energy regulator to allow it to build more renewable power plants and to increase its power generation capacity to half of the country’s total capacity, in order to strengthen national power supply security.

Kornrasit Pakchotanon, Governor of Egat, said that the company would hold discussions with the Energy Regulatory Commission on amending that national Power Development Plan (PDP) to allow the state-owned utility to increase its renewable power generation capacity from 560 MW to 2000 MW by 2036, and to increase its share of the country’s total generating capacity to 50 per cent by that time, up from the 39 per cent specified in the PDP.