APERC: Thailand will likely use 86% more energy in 2040

BANGKOK, 7 April 2016 (NNT) - The Asia Pacific Energy Research Center (APERC) has predicted that Thailand’s energy use in 2040 will increase by 86% and suggested that the country save energy in the transport sector.

Director of the Energy Policy and Planning Office Tawarat Sutabutr said the APERC forecast that Thailand’s energy use would continue increasing in the next 20-30 years but energy sources would decrease. Thailand’s energy import would likely increase to 78% from 42%, said the director.

The APERC’s forecast suggested that Thailand still had to continuously save energy especially in the transport sector by promoting highly-efficient vehicles, alternative energy and mass transit.

The APERC also developed an alternative plan for Thailand on energy production from three main sources, including clean coal technology, natural gas and nuclear power.


-- NNT 2016-04-07

The PM just came back from the nuclear meeting, Being a forward thinking person and looking at Thailand's current system of power generation, what to do in the future, spend vast amount of money on a coal fired power station/ stations, that produce more carbon.

Or is the P M and his advisors forward thinking enough to go for a slightly more expensive than a uranium power plant and go with a THORIUM one, which mineral is more abundant around the globe , it has a lower waste product and has superior fuel properties.

Thorium 233 could mean 1000 years of power for mankind and reduce the impact of the carbon we produce.

Being a safer system than an Uranium powered plant ( Chernobyl , Japan )

having no high enriched uranium to make weapons may be also be ,

why a Thorium power plant gets over looked.

86 % more of those nice cables at the streets, there's no space for that! The concrete poles will break. Why not go for solar power??

2040, that's good. No need to do anything about it for more than thirty years. This lot is off the hook!

2040, that's good. No need to do anything about it for more than thirty years. This lot is off the hook!

Great to see you care,

2040, that's good. No need to do anything about it for more than thirty years. This lot is off the hook!

Great to see you care,

2040, that's good. No need to do anything about it for more than thirty years. This lot is off the hook!

Great to see you care,

86 % more of those nice cables at the streets, there's no space for that! The concrete poles will break. Why not go for solar power??

Solar power means decentralized power, power which will be produced on the roofs of supermarkets and houses, using either photovoltaic or thermo-solar technologies. Implementing these technologies would lead to a massive profit loss for EGAT. EGAT needs to completely change their company strategy towards the promotion and installation of above-named devices to stay profitable. Furthermore, they will not need another coal-fired plant, like the one in Krabi. But looking beyond their owns nose or wallet, is an alien concept in Thailand.

Edited April 7, 201610 yr by fxe1200

86 or 86.5%?

Could also be 85.4%, can we see the back up documents or it's another one of those "make a lucky guess to be in the news"?

The PM just came back from the nuclear meeting, Being a forward thinking person and looking at Thailand's current system of power generation, what to do in the future, spend vast amount of money on a coal fired power station/ stations, that produce more carbon.

Or is the P M and his advisors forward thinking enough to go for a slightly more expensive than a uranium power plant and go with a THORIUM one, which mineral is more abundant around the globe , it has a lower waste product and has superior fuel properties.

Thorium 233 could mean 1000 years of power for mankind and reduce the impact of the carbon we produce.

Being a safer system than an Uranium powered plant ( Chernobyl , Japan )

having no high enriched uranium to make weapons may be also be ,

why a Thorium power plant gets over looked.

why a Thorium power plant gets over looked

The only thorium power plant in the world is in India that coincidentally has the largest thorium reserve in the world. But India's Kakrapar-1 – is actually a converted uranium-fueled pressurized water reactor. Without exception, thorium reactors have never been commercially viable, nor do any of the intended new designs by USA, France, China and Russia seem remotely viable.

Obviously, a thorium reactor now for Thailand would be premature.

No doubt, EGAT paid for the report