ELECTRICITY
Egat in a hurry to embrace 'clean coal'
- Published: 20 Feb 2013 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Business
The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is ready to push for development of coal-fired power plants, saying depleting gas reserves will result in higher power tariffs unless other economical options are available.
Spokesman Pongdit Potejana said Egat and the Energy Ministry have agreed that a power plant fuelled by imported coal is the most suitable option for Thailand since "clean coal" technology can allegedly partially reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Gas reserves in the Gulf of Thailand are projected to last only another decade, leading to heavy reliance on imported gas in the years to come.
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