Thailand plans to buy more electricity from Laos
Thailand may have to buy 9,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity from Laos this year to meet its rising demand.
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Sources from Bangkok said senior officials of the two sides are working on details of a new MoU, which is expected to be signed in the second half of this year.
If the discussion on the MoU’s details progresses and finishes on time, it will be signed at the ASEAN Summit meeting in September this year.
Laos is dubbed as “the Battery of Asia” given it has an abundant hydropower potential with an estimated combined capacity of about 200,000 MW a year.