Electric power generation claims in the press

[bluesofa]

I remember reading the government saying they had increased the amount of solar power that is “to be generated” to 30% of the total generated nationally.

There were recently a couple of letters in the newspaper we can’t mention regarding this.

 

I wonder if anyone has any details of how much solar power is being generated at the moment, just to be able to compare it to the government’s pipe dream?

 

[BuaBS]

Maybe created 30 % more solar power , def not 30 % of the total generated nationally. More like 0,3 %.

[grollies]

Everything you're asking is here

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Thailand

 

Google.

[bluesofa]

Thanks for posting the Wiki link.

Using that, this wikii page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Thailand
and another page https://ycharts.com/indicators/thailand_electricity_generation
showing total electricity generation.

 

Looking at 2014 which seems the last year all those figures were available, it looks like this to me:
Total electricity generated 168TWatts
Total renewable energy 12GWatts
Solar energy 100MWatts

 

That seems renewable energy was less than 1% of the total, and of that, solar looks like just a fraction of it.

Maybe it’s wrong to compare different charts, or perhaps I’ve completely misunderstood all of it?