New record set for power consumption on May 11



BANGKOK: -- Electricity consumption broke the record for the 7th time this year with usage peaked at 2.12 pm on Wednesday at 29,600.8 megawatts, said Mr Soonchai Kamnoonseth, governor of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand.

The last record was registered on April 28 with power consumption soared to 29,403.7 megawatts.

The governor said that power consumption in the industrial sector, service sector and households on Wednesday increased sharply because it was a working day after long holidays and coupled with the hot weather.

However, he assured that EGAT had enough power reserves to meet with power demand of up to 32,000 megawatts. He further said that EGAT made preparations to cope with anticipated increase in power consumption during the months of April and May by suspending major repairs, storing more bunker oil and natural gas in reserves and securing power supplies from Laos.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/162959


-- Thai PBS 2016-05-12

I would love to consume some electricity but here in Chiang Mai we are having out 4th power outage in two weeks. It is really hard to live without electricity and water for hour after hour. But hey, it is a lovely sunny day.

Nothing like suspending major repairs to ensure nothing goes wrong.

Edited May 12, 201610 yr by FloridaExport

Nothing like suspending major repairs to ensure nothing goes wrong.

And in true Thaivisa member style, your dammed if you do, dammed if you dont, just cant win with farang know it alls

More people with more money, more A/C...

Should not be news, just facts.