Laos boosts hydropower, explores coal deposits for shale gas

Laos aims to sharply boost its hydropower generation to 10,000 megawatts by 2020 and is exploring for shale gas as part of plans to export electricity to its neighbours, its vice minister of energy and mines said on 26 October.

Laos is among Asia’s poorest countries but has big ambitions to export power generated from its ample water resources.

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