Thai Government to mull power offer from Laos
Thailand will consider a proposal to increase the memorandum of understanding on the purchase of electricity from Laos from 7,000 megawatts to 10,000MW after committing to buy 3,316MW this year, Energy Minister General Anantaporn Kanjanarat said on 9 December. He was speaking after a ceremony to open Laos’s first lignite-mine-mouth power-generation plant, the Hongsa Power Plant.
The minister said that under the current MoU, which expires at the end of this year, Thailand had committed to buying about 5,000MW of electricity from Laos, including 1,473MW from the Hongsa Power Plant.
