rooster59 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 20-year National power generation plan revealed Na-ark Rojanasuvan BANGKOK - The latest meeting of the National Energy Policy Council (NEPC) has approved the 2018-2037 national power generation plan, in accordance with the 20-year national strategy. Energy Minister Siri Jirapongphan, noted that the average selling price within the 20-year period of this plan is in the range of 3.50 - 3.63 baht per unit. He assured the public that their electricity bills over that extended time would be comparable of the bills being issued at present, if not cheaper, for the purpose of attracting investments, especially in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). He explained that decreasing the cost of electricity can be achieved by using technology to create a smart electricity distribution system. The Minister said the administration has assigned the Energy Ministry to review the national power generation plan every five years, in order to maintain power stability for the country. The government also instructed the ministry to construct power plants in the western region to replace the two now cancelled coal power plant projects, abandoned due to a disagreement with the public. The meeting also agreed to build more Pracharat bio-power plants in the three southern border provinces. The Minister also mentioned that the government will urgently look into a way to expedite a public solar power project that would allow members of the public to install solar panels, and use and trade the power they generated. -- nnt 2019-01-26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orton Rd Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Decreasing the cost of electricity? they just put it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossy Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 And now the Junta puts the kiss of death on the nations life blood. For the Power Generation Plan to be glued to the widely criticised 20-year National Strategy is the sort of handicap that power generation needs least of all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lungstib Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 13 minutes ago, rooster59 said: The government also instructed the ministry to construct power plants in the western region What a plan! Rather short on details and information perhaps but knowing they have 'instructed the ministry' has obviously solved all our problems of coal fired plants and carbon fuel emissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1012 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Ok generate as much as you like, how about ensuring the infrastructure network of sub-stations/transformers/power cables are adequate to ensure that the electricity generated is passed on to the users in a timely and continuous manner. I have regular outages, the PEA centre are very familiar with me calling them, almost on first name terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 as easy as!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossy Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 14 minutes ago, John1012 said: Ok generate as much as you like, how about ensuring the infrastructure network of sub-stations/transformers/power cables are adequate to ensure that the electricity generated is passed on to the users in a timely and continuous manner. I have regular outages, the PEA centre are very familiar with me calling them, almost on first name terms. Too true. J. Rightly or wrongly, I put the many and often only momentary outages down to some stupid prat having simple pressed the wrong switch. 'Oops, sorry boss, you meant that switch . . . but mae pen rai, it was only a little outage,' little realising the number of PCs he's crashed or X-rays were only half-done or teeth were only partly drilled . . . yeooo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Good news for the folks in the villages who wait for electricity for 40 years already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 7 minutes ago, Lupatria said: Good news for the folks in the villages who wait for electricity for 40 years already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 3 hours ago, rooster59 said: the National Energy Policy Council (NEPC) has approved the 2018-2037 national power generation plan, in accordance with the 20-year national strategy (my bold) As electrical generation, transmission and distribution in Thailand is nationalized, updating the nation's 20-year energy plan has been done by previous administrations - so nothing unusual. The difference now however, is that the junta's plan will be memorialized permanently within the constitution under the 20-year national strategy. Making any significant changes to the plan will likely require changes to the the constitution and possibly related organic laws. For the next five years after the next elected government has been installed, such changes will have to have approval of the pro-military Senate. Otherwise, why now the rush to the several new 20-year plans introduced during Prayut's regime just prior to the next election? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossy Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 2 hours ago, Srikcir said: As electrical generation, transmission and distribution in Thailand is nationalized, updating the nation's 20-year energy plan has been done by previous administrations - so nothing unusual. The difference now however, is that the junta's plan will be memorialized permanently within the constitution under the 20-year national strategy. Making any significant changes to the plan will likely require changes to the the constitution and possibly related organic laws. For the next five years after the next elected government has been installed, such changes will have to have approval of the pro-military Senate. Otherwise, why now the rush to the several new 20-year plans introduced during Prayut's regime just prior to the next election? Crafty swines . . . dirty rotten scoundrels . . . I run out of bad words to describe Prayuth and his Playboys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Install hot air turbines on the junta's mouths, sorted, terawatts of powwah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 From what I've read lately don't try the Australian system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anterian Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 11 hours ago, Ossy said: Too true. J. Rightly or wrongly, I put the many and often only momentary outages down to some stupid prat having simple pressed the wrong switch. 'Oops, sorry boss, you meant that switch . . . but mae pen rai, it was only a little outage,' little realising the number of PCs he's crashed or X-rays were only half-done or teeth were only partly drilled . . . yeooo! I think these 20 second outages are when they connect a new block of houses to the grid, at least in my area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceKadet Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 So, Khun Siri has spoken but didn't say anything. How, what, when, where? Do we know how the cancelled coal power plants will be replaced, and with what? Any new nuclear plans? Bio-power? give me a break... seriously? That's like the biggest CO2 producer of them all.... Solar? A joke.,... Another politician venting hot air... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Politicians to be the key in this, recycling all their hot air should run Thailand if not the rest of the world forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfLight Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Excellent and completely marvellous. That'll work for sure. Gone are the days last week when we got an average of 6 black-outs or brown-outs a day. Progress! Coal-powered are they? The new generating stations... There's a certain inevitability about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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