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Home » Reader question » Where do the electricity and gas come from in Thailand?
Where do the electricity and gas come from in Thailand?
Dear readers,
In the Netherlands and elsewhere there is great concern because next winter Groningen gas will be needed again to generate electricity. Nota bene, the gas-fired power stations had to close because of nature and the environment.
That raises the question for me: how does Thailand get electricity? Do they raise it themselves? Does Thailand have one or more nuclear power plants, do they buy power from Laos or Myanmar? And where does all that bottled gas come from, which is used to heat wok pans at home, in restaurants and in street stalls?
Regards,
RuudCNX
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In 2007 and 2008 I worked in Map Ta Put, near Rayong. There is a huge industrial area there, comparable to the Botlek near Rotterdam. Many chemical factories, but also a coal-fired power station. And I have seen more of it on my trips through Thailand.
I also know that coal and LNG enter the country through the port of Map Ta Put.
My wife works at PTT's pipeline division and PTT is still busy building LNG pipelines throughout the country.
As far as I know they have at least 2 hydroelectric plants.
Dear French,
There must be many more, there are already two here in Chiang Mai alone. but maybe more.
Hi Ruud,
Thailand has reservoirs where energy is generated, https://www.thailandblog.nl/tag/stuwmeren/
And are many fossil power stations, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Thailand
In addition, there are also wind farms such as this one, https://www.google.nl/maps/dir//14.9261644,101.4504583/@14.9242835,101.4524804,1495m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!4m1!3e0
I have also seen large fields with solar panels in several places... maybe they also generate the necessary power?
Here is a whole explanation about energy in Thailand. Gas is partly extracted and apparently also imported.
Renewable energy (such as solar energy) is also increasingly being discussed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Thailand
Another analysis of 2017 activities from a few years before to the desirability today 2022.
https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/THA
Where does all that gas come from is the question.
Most (natural) gas, which is mainly used for generating electricity, comes from the Gulf of Thailand (pipelines to Map Tha Phut in Rayong) and Myanmar (pipeline to Ratchaburi.
Thailand has no nuclear power plants.
Part of the electricity is generated with coal, hydro and solar. Thailand also imports from Laos (Hydro).
Cooking gas is LPG. Part of this is released during oil and gas extraction in Thailand itself and part is imported via S'pore.
Gas in Thailand is self-produced, mainly from Gulf Of Thailand. Second, import from Myanmar and import as LNG
There are no nuclear power plants. Electricity is imported from Laos (hydro) and generated by coal and gas power stations. And a small portion of renewables. All coal is imported except for the power plant in Mae Moh which runs on lignite that is sourced locally.
Thailand's energy policy is not very progressive and very focused on gas
I will not be surprised that Thailand has an agreement with Laos. But several dams are planned in the Mekong and will they become co-dams? Don't see any in much of the Thailand/Laos border section though. Are planned, but China is already holding back a lot of water, which does not benefit the Mekong River.
There are several water plants in Thailand, which run into problems in dry weather. Did I get to read
Thailand is now also investing more in solar energy.
I know that there is a biomass generator in Satun, which is fed with old rubber trees. Perhaps there are several?
Rayong is indeed the Botlek, as others said, gas will come in there and be processed.
As Thailand, would also bet on hydrogen, electrolysis of water by solar panels. Are we also planning in the Netherlands, only then through wind energy.
The question is also what a Shell will do. They have a process in which CO2 is converted into fuels with hydrogen. Then you are circular (?). The CO2 released from combustion processes is (already?) stored in old gas fields. It was disputed who takes the lead in the H2 plant in the north of the country. Perhaps now on a very low ebb because of Shell's departure.
The electric car is not an option. Lithium is rare and has a huge negative impact on the environment, but you don't hear about it. Will come again later.
By the way, wind turbines create noise, vibrations, what does that do to nautical life?
Waiting for nuclear fusion.
Mainly from fossil fuels, a little from hydropower and a little bit from solar.
Yes, even from an environmental disaster such as the Mae Moo lignite power plants in Lampang. The exhibition at the Mae Moo site is worth a visit. Your mouth falls open in amazement when you read how "royally enlightening" the activities there are. There is no mention of the extremely unhealthy high air pollution, many times above the already high legal Thai standard. It would be sheer nonsense if it weren't so shockingly unworldly.
Policy retranslated: Where do electricity and gas come from in Thailand?
From the ultra-conservative greedy minds of a select club of Thai rulers, for a very long time 🙂
The reason is that that select club of self-proclaimed “con die” (good people) have and maintain central control over the lucrative internal energy market. Although the price of electricity is still relatively low compared to the EU, the external social costs are sky-high, of course due to the extremely high environmental costs, which are hardly taken into account in practice.
And that of course in LoS (Land of Sun), a conduit through which Chinese solar panels are pushed en masse towards the US. As long as it slides nicely, there is no problem in LoS (Land of Scams) 🙂
A Thai told me that 80% of the electricity generated in Laos is exported to Thailand.