Thailand’s Energy Regulatory Commission sets new deadline for power purchase agreement bid winners The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has set next Monday as the deadline for 14 winners in the auction of the 2017 Small Power Producer Hybrid Firm, a renewable power scheme, following failure to sign power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the Electricity Generating […]
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Thailand mulls southern land bridge project – Route would bypass Malacca Strait traffic The location of the government’s land bridge project in the South — touted as a more convenient way to transport goods from the Middle East to the Pacific region — will be decided by June, Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said on Monday. […]
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Orient Cable Sends First Offshore Wind Shipment to Vietnam SEE ALSO: Chinese Power Cable Specialist Orient Cable To Provide And Install A 185-Kilometre, 35 KV Subsea Cable System For Vietnam’s Binh Dai Offshore Wind Farm Chinese power cable specialist Orient Cable is about to send off the submarine cables for phase one of the Binh […]
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Thai & Chinese governments to sign four construction contracts this month for high-speed train from Bangkok to Nong Khai Daily News reported that the State Railways of Thailand said that the Thai and Chinese governments would be signing four contracts related to the building of the high speed train from the Thai capital Bangkok to […]
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Thai renewable energy developer Gunkul Engineering tries hand at cannabis development Gunkul plans to use land near its wind turbines for cannabis and hemp businesses. Gunkul Engineering Plc, a key renewable energy developer and construction company, is diversifying into cannabis development and hemp-based products by turning some of its wind farms into cultivation and production […]
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Test run of Bangkok’s Red Line rail service postponed for 4 months to July 2021 Train services from Hua Lamphong station to be cut The test run for Bangkok’s Red Line will be postponed from March 26 to July 28. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu) The test run of Bangkok’s Red Line rail service has been […]
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Dried tokay geckos a big income earner for village in Thailand’s Nakhon Phanom With much of Isan already struggling with water shortages this dry season, residents of a village in Na Wa district welcome it as the perfect time to catch and dry tokay geckos for export. The dried bodies are used in traditional Chinese […]
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Ambitious project will upgrade Khon Kaen, Ayutthaya and Pattaya train stations Khon Kaen, Ayutthaya and Pattaya train stations are set to be developed with a budget of 64 billion baht. Director-General of the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning (OTP), Punya Chupanit, said staff were in the process of preparing the Transit Oriented […]
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Nam Theun 1 Hydropower Project in Laos PDR broke the World Record for RCC Placement in a single month At the end of January 2021, the Nam Theun 1 Hydropower Project in Laos PDR broke the World Record for RCC Placement (*roller compacted concrete (RCC)) in a single month. A quantity of 361,333 cubic metres […]
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Geologist speaks out about mistakes made in construction of Klong Wan port near Hua Hin A leading former geologist at Chula university and councillor in Prachuap Khiri Khan said that the construction of the Klong Wan port in Muang district was a case study in most things that could go wrong. It was a dreadful […]
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