Decentralizing Thai Power: Towards a sustainable energy system

This report puts forward a vision of a clean and profitable Power Development Plan (PDP)4 for Thailand, based on Government and World Bank figures alone. This vision is then contrasted with the current inefficient, fossil fuel-intensive PDP from state generator EGAT5 that determines Thai energy planning. The comparison demonstrates that, even according to relatively conservative assessments of potential identified by numerous Government and World Bank Commissioned studies, as illustrated in the table, Thailand’s potential for meeting its future growth in energy demand through a decentralized energy mix of energy efficiency, renewable energy and efficient Combine Heat and Power generation (CHP - see Box 1) is large enough to negate the need for the new non-committed centralized coal and gas generation capacity and hydropower imports specified in the government’s PDP.

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