No Takers For Southern Wind Farms

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No takers for southern wind farms

(dpa) - Special incentives have failed to persuade investors to set up wind-power turbines in Thailand's troubled Pattani province, deemed one of the best locations in the kingdom for the renewable energy source, energy officials said Monday.

"We have offered to pay investors in Pattani 4 baht (11 cents) per megawatt for wind power for the first seven years of operations instead of the 1.5 baht that is usually paid per megawatt bought from the private sector, but nobody has applied for the project," said Panich Pongpirodom, director-general of the Energy Ministry's department of alternative energy development and efficiency.

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Too bad they don't bring the same offer to the table to the islands. We could use it.