Thailand’s LNG imports hit a three-year low in January, with no receipts from its usual suppliers Australia and Malaysia, even as one of its biggest importers Qatar shipped slightly more during the month.

Thai energy company Impact Solar has announced that it is developing Thailand’s largest private-owned microgrid in Sriracha. The 214MW microgrid will comprise gas turbines, rooftop solar and floating solar systems as power generation resources, and a battery storage and control system that will be provided by Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

B.Grimm Power Plc (BGRIM), Thailand’s leading industrial power producer, has signed a US$186 million syndicated loan with a group of lenders including Asian Development Bank (ADB) to support the single largest solar farm project in Vietnam.

Thailand’s power sector is heavily dependent on fossil fuels with 81% share in the generation mix, meeting the country’s growing power demand. With countries across the world setting timelines for completely shoving coal out of the generation mix, Thailand’s latest Power Development Plan (PDP) has set the expansion plan of gas-based power generation and renewables […]

A microgrid pilot project is operating in Thailand, marking the first success of a national microgrid policy introduced in 2018.

Thailand’s state-owned energy company, PTT, has partnered with the nonprofit Energy Web Foundation to create a new blockchain-based renewable energy system. Their goal is to develop a regional energy solution that’s compliant with the International Renewable Energy Certificates Standard (I-REC), which provides certificates to companies verifying that their green energy is legitimate and derived from a reliable and sustainable […]

Thailand’s oil giant, whose sales account for about 10% of the nation’s economic output, is suddenly spending billions of dollars on electric-vehicle and renewable-energy companies and tilting its traditional businesses toward chemicals and plastics.

The Justice ministry has announced solar panels will be installed at all 143 prisons throughout the country. Above all in a bid to reduce their electricity costs. The Corrections Department was found to have not paid the power bills in full in 2019, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said on Sunday. According to Mr Somsak, the department in fiscal […]

Japan’s Tokyo Gas (TYO:9531) and Thai state-backed energy company PTT (BKK:PTT) will set up a joint venture to enter the on-site energy business involving liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply in Thailand.

Thai state-owned PTT Pcl will promote fuel-switching to natural gas by industrial factories to lower the level of PM2.5 dust particles in Bangkok and its surrounding areas, said PTT senior executive vice-president for gas business Wuttikorn Stithit. Wuttikorn said the company would conduct a survey and provide an evaluation of existing machineries at factories, aimed […]