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Fri, 06/03/2011 - 15:33
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EGAT woos public support for coal-fired power plant projects
BANGKOK, June 3 (TNA) - The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) is speeding up its public relations campaigns to woo public support for the construction of its nine coal-fired power plants under its 20-year power development plan.
EGAT Governor Suthas Patamasiriwat said on Friday that EGAT is conducting a feasibility study in the nine targeted sites and convincing local people to support the projects, and that his state-run agency is also introducing its coal-fired power plant technology which can be applied for as long as two centuries.
Suthas revealed that the first coal-fired power plant, under EGAT's power development plan implemented from 2010-2030, will be developed in 2019; so, the selection of its location is to be concluded by mid 2012, and that a suitable location should be coastal to facilitate the import of clean coal.
According to the EGAT governor, Tap Sa-kae District in Thailand's upper southern Prachuap Khiri Khan Province appears to be among suitable locations and EGAT should successfully convince local people of the necessity to have coal-fired power plants to relieve the country's reliance on gas--which now fuels up to 70 per cent of the Kingdom's total power generation.
The EGAT chief also suggested that Thailand should not abandon its nuclear power plant projects because it does not have many other choices of fuel for power plants, saying that concerned authorities should, instead, study the possibility of nuclear power plants and wait for the best and safest relevant technology. (TNA)
EGAT Governor Suthas Patamasiriwat said on Friday that EGAT is conducting a feasibility study in the nine targeted sites and convincing local people to support the projects, and that his state-run agency is also introducing its coal-fired power plant technology which can be applied for as long as two centuries.
Suthas revealed that the first coal-fired power plant, under EGAT's power development plan implemented from 2010-2030, will be developed in 2019; so, the selection of its location is to be concluded by mid 2012, and that a suitable location should be coastal to facilitate the import of clean coal.
According to the EGAT governor, Tap Sa-kae District in Thailand's upper southern Prachuap Khiri Khan Province appears to be among suitable locations and EGAT should successfully convince local people of the necessity to have coal-fired power plants to relieve the country's reliance on gas--which now fuels up to 70 per cent of the Kingdom's total power generation.
The EGAT chief also suggested that Thailand should not abandon its nuclear power plant projects because it does not have many other choices of fuel for power plants, saying that concerned authorities should, instead, study the possibility of nuclear power plants and wait for the best and safest relevant technology. (TNA)
