webfact Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Manufacturers foresee chaos during April's energy outageBy Digital MediaBANGKOK, Feb 22 – Cutting industrial production on April 5 as proposed by the government to minimise power consumption will severely affect the private sector, a leading businessman said today.Pornsilp Patcharintanakul, deputy chairman of Thai Chamber of Commerce and senior consultant of Charoen Pokphand’s agro industrial and food business group, said the one-day production suspension will negatively impact various parties concerned including employees.“It should be the last alternative. The government should call on people and households to use less power during the shortage period on April 5-14,” he said.Mr Pornsilp said the government has been well aware of the maintenance of the natural gas platform in Myanmar and should have worked out preparations to cope with the situation.The announcement of energy outage on April 5-14 is rather surprising and too imminent, he said. Suspending production of food processing and the operations of frozen food factories will result is losses of raw materials which must be kept at a temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius. (MCOT online news)-- TNA 2013-02-22 RELATED Plants may shut on April 5 to ease power woes: Thailand http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/621025-plants-may-shut-on-april-5-to-ease-power-woes-thailand/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dcutman Posted February 22, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2013 (edited) Well a country run by Clowns, is in fact a circus. What else needs to be said? Edited February 22, 2013 by dcutman 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezy1801 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 (edited) Also there will be a water shortage around this period. 555555555555555555555555555 Edited February 22, 2013 by dezy1801 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai at Heart Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I guess this is a case of, it never rains, but it pours, or it never rains at all, or there are showers. Floods, droughts, now compulsory days off because no electricity. Not a good one to explain to business this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pimay1 Posted February 22, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2013 I guess this is a case of, it never rains, but it pours, or it never rains at all, or there are showers. Floods, droughts, now compulsory days off because no electricity. Not a good one to explain to business this one. Not to worry. I have no doubt the "real PM" is on it, eer on the phone to the "not the real PM" getting advice to handle the pending fiasco. Watch for a 1,000 Korean pumps, a thousand boats and a master plan from Plod. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai at Heart Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I guess this is a case of, it never rains, but it pours, or it never rains at all, or there are showers. Floods, droughts, now compulsory days off because no electricity. Not a good one to explain to business this one. Not to worry. I have no doubt the "real PM" is on it, eer on the phone to the "not the real PM" getting advice to handle the pending fiasco.Watch for a 1,000 Korean pumps, a thousand boats and a master plan from Plod. this is definitely not a good story if you are trying to attract foreign investors to put up factories. To an extent, no one can stop the rain, but this should have been solved months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BrianCR Posted February 22, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2013 (edited) anyone else get the idea that this country is not too slowly unraveling it's self? Edited February 22, 2013 by BrianCR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimay1 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I guess this is a case of, it never rains, but it pours, or it never rains at all, or there are showers. Floods, droughts, now compulsory days off because no electricity. Not a good one to explain to business this one. Not to worry. I have no doubt the "real PM" is on it, eer on the phone to the "not the real PM" getting advice to handle the pending fiasco.Watch for a 1,000 Korean pumps, a thousand boats and a master plan from Plod. this is definitely not a good story if you are trying to attract foreign investors to put up factories. To an extent, no one can stop the rain, but this should have been solved months ago. Exactly. This is not just a small bump in the road so to speak. This affects the entire nation and all manufacturing plants in Thailand. It seems that until there is an immediate emergency these folks do absolutely nothing then try to cover their ass with some idiotic suggestion. The department personnel responsible for this delay in planning should all be fired. It is obvious they are incapable in their jobs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEL1 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 They're just making a publicity stunt, as there will never be an event the same afterwards. In this way, the government will introduce, next year when no problems have arisen, "Thailand, hub of electricity reliability". -mel. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramrod711 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I guess this is a case of, it never rains, but it pours, or it never rains at all, or there are showers. Floods, droughts, now compulsory days off because no electricity. Not a good one to explain to business this one. Not to worry. I have no doubt the "real PM" is on it, eer on the phone to the "not the real PM" getting advice to handle the pending fiasco. Watch for a 1,000 Korean pumps, a thousand boats and a master plan from Plod. A master plan from Plod, hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nisa Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 A look at what things will be like April 5th and the days beyond .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbamboo Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Well a country run by Clowns, is in fact a circus. What else needs to be said? Only where's the ringmaster and his 'lovely assistant'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 that no electric will have a big impact on production, specially on production lines that are never shut down. Who would have thought that??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEL1 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 It's called JIT delivery. Just in Thai When we feel the need to get off our asses and deliver... -mel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locationthailand Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 anyone else get the idea that this country is not too slowly unraveling it's self?Or they are writing the longest suicide note in history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 PPPPPP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 It doesn't matter. Relax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locationthailand Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Why don't we all just wait until the date unfolds the media assumptions... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaanUSA Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 They will need to work closely with the electricity providers and tone down usage during peak times (if this really does become a problem). So workers might have their schedules changed around a bit. Also some generators would probably help and I imagine many places already have generators installed. The places that need to keep product at -18 C should have backup generators already. If not, then they are dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemoncake Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 All the talk, advise, blah blah blah I am worried and have a bad feeling that the problem will be dealt with Thai style, ie from 5-14 April, if not longer there will be power outage country wide for hours every day. In smaller provinces there will most likely not be any power at all. After all is over, they will talk and point fingers and eventually it will fade away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaanUSA Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I wouldn't even call that Thai style. That happens already in other countries. It might end up not even being a problem. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjjmmi Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Same as 2011 no floods here be worried 6 weeks of no power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker69 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Same as 2011 no floods here be worried 6 weeks of no power And the hot season is comming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soi Sauce Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 They want to privatise the electric and the oil. Been saying that since the election. Now maybe you'll listen. Engineered? 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soi Sauce Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 A look at what things will be like April 5th and the days beyond .... Then comes the Songkran Holiday and a good reason to pay the peasants to riot again. Introduce a state of emergency and, Bob's yer uncle, or, Thailand's your country. Thanks very much reds. We got what we wanted. Good nite and bye-bye to ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nisa Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I wouldn't even call that Thai style. That happens already in other countries. It might end up not even being a problem. But don't let that stop a good Thai Bashing and to make mountain out of mole hills because the newspapers tend to report problems and negative stories. As for this not being an uncommon situation ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_blackout 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEL1 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 that no electric will have a big impact on production, specially on production lines that are never shut down. Who would have thought that??? It won't have much affect upon the steel production, as hardened and tempered doesn't exist here, nor yield strength testing in stock rolls. Just don't buy a Honda Jazz made between Jun 2013 and Oct 2013. -mel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamhar Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 If it is true that the country has planned on a electrical disruption by 97%, the tearing sound you are hearing is from all the companies ripping their plan for a manufacturing center in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamhar Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 If it is true that the country has planned on a electrical disruption by 97%, the tearing sound you are hearing is from all the companies ripping their plan for a manufacturing center in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dap Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 They're just making a publicity stunt, as there will never be an event the same afterwards. In this way, the government will introduce, next year when no problems have arisen, "Thailand, hub of electricity reliability". -mel. I do wholeheartedly agree with your call of "publicity stunt", but I think it has more to do with EGAT making people think that they're desire to build more unecessary power plants is a priority everyone needs to address. Anyone noticed all the recent talk of "clean" coal power plants? Anyone ever heard of "clean" coal being used in Thailand? Lignite is by no stretch of the imagination "clean". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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