Thailand’s state-backed upstream player PTT Exploration & Production (PTTEP) is facing significant gas supply challenges that pose further downside risks to the Southeast Asian nation’s gas power sector, warned Fitch Solutions. Thailand’s power sector is already facing downward pressures from strained import supply from Myanmar, which is a major exporter of natural gas to Thailand. […]

Kitti Petchsantad, Deputy Governor of Transmission Systems of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), has announced that EGAT has completed the project to improve the transmission system to southern regions of Thailand, effectively, doubling the electrical-supply capacity to Phuket.

Thailand’s dependence on imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) continues to expand despite soaring global prices. Significantly, the increasing demand for LNG is being exacerbated by production declines across ageing domestic fields, particularly Erawan. Data from the Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO) show LNG imports during the first two months of 2022 totalled 1,912 million […]

PTT Oil and Retail Business (OR) plans to increase its electric vehicle (EV) business by adding more charging stations in the nation’s shopping malls by the end of the year. Terminal 21, Fashion Island, and The Promenade are next in line to get the charging stations under the PluZ brand.

Aramco has announced it has deepened its collaboration with Thailand’s national oil company PTT, amidst the expansion of its presence in Asia. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding at a ceremony in Bangkok on May 11.

At the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow known as COP26, countries agreed to advance the implementation of the Paris Agreement and accelerate its action plans to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. Along the line of this endeavor, the Prime Minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-cha, announced Thailand’s enhanced ambition towards a low carbon society, aiming […]

Shares in Contemporary Amperex Technology advanced today after the Chinese battery giant said that it will supply batteries to Horizon Plus, an electric vehicle joint venture set up by Chinese iPhone supplier Foxconn and Thai state-owned energy giant Petroleum Authority of Thailand.

Pattaya businesses are being hit with the double whammy of fuel prices rising at the same time as the demand for energy nationwide is surging due to Thailand’s economic recovery. Operators of metered and motorcycle taxis, tourist vans, baht buses, tour boats and jet skis all are reporting hardship due to inflation, driven by soaring […]

BANGKOK, May 7 (Xinhua): The Thai government and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) jointly launched a pilot project for electric motorcycle taxis in Thailand. Some 50 electric motorcycles donated by Chinese company TAILG will be used as green motorcycle taxis in a collaborative research project and as demonstration cases.

Deco Green Energy Co, a Thai electric motorcycle manufacturer and distributor, signed an agreement yesterday with the Excise Department to promote battery electric vehicles (BEVs) under the government’s subsidy and tax incentive measures. Deco produces both vehicles and components, including electric motorcycles, electric bicycles, spare parts and lithium batteries.