The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand plans to invest Bt668.3 billion during 2016-2020. According to Egat Governor Soonchai Kumnoonsate, the investment is geared towards new power plants as well as an upgrade in the power grid to connect new power plants and new renewable power plants. The new power plants include the replacement of four […]
Continue ReadingGlobal construction and mining equipment manufacturer XCMG joined the official launching ceremony of the China-Thailand railway project that was held at Chiang Rak Noi Station in central Thailand’s Ayutthaya province on December 19. The high-speed railroad project spanning 845 kilometers through 10 provinces in Thailand will allow trains to operate at top speeds of 180 […]
Continue ReadingThailand signed two railway deals worth $933.2 million (33.66 billion baht) on Thursday, the transport minister said, in the latest bid by the military government to increase infrastructure investment to boost Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy. The deals are among some 20 infrastructure projects worth nearly 1.8 trillion baht ($50.2 billion) and covering rail, roads, air […]
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New land appraisal prices nationwide for 2016-19 are up 27.8% from the levels set in 2012-15, while property on Silom Road remains the most expensive in the country, according to the Treasury Department. Average land prices in Bangkok are up 15.8% since the last review four years ago, while those in the provinces increased by […]
Continue ReadingThe number of building projects in Yangon fell from 600 to 400 per month between November and December, according to the Building Department under the Yangon City Development Committee. “The rate dropped in these two months. We had to permit only 400 projects last month,” said an official from the department. Many people blame the […]
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It is great to see that improvements in solar panel technologies, and drop in commercial prices, have made more and more home owners opt for generating clean solar power. But, energy consumption varies greatly throughout the day (and night) and without some sort of an energy storage system, a lot of energy goes to waste […]
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Govt sending mixed signals on renewables, while strongly supporting coal. A company set up a “Solar Charger Station” display at an exhibition last February to show how solar energy could be harnessed to charge mobile phones. Two years ago, all Kordin Chaihae could do after sunset was to sit quietly by a candle in his […]
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The government approved a draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday to purchase electricity from the Nam Thuen 1 hydropower project in Laos. The draft MoU was endorsed by the National Energy Policy Committee chaired by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, which will see Thailand buy 520 megawatts of power in 2022 worth 2.67 baht per […]
Continue ReadingCambodia and Thailand have agreed to push ahead with completion of a railway line from Bangkok to Phnom Penh, with the two countries signing a memorandum of understanding during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to the neighbouring country last week. The long-delayed project is part of the eastern corridor of the Singapore-Kunming Rail Link, a […]
Continue ReadingEditorial Opinion Justice always comes late. But when it came last Thursday — in one of the Klong Dan corruption cases — it was indeed welcome because, at least, it has proven that corruption does not pay. Three former officials of the Pollution Control Department (PCD), namely Pakit Kiravanich, the former director-general of the department, […]
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