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THAILAND
PURCHASES ELECTRICITY FROM REGIONAL COUNTRIES
Bangkok, March 11 (VNA)
-- Thailand has signed bilateral contracts to purchase
electricity from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and China, General
Secretary of Thailand's Energy Policy Committee Piyasawat
Amaranand was quoted as saying.
Piyasawat Amaranand told the Bussiness Day
newspaper reporter recently that the establishment of a Regional
Electricity Market (REM) within the Mekong Sub-committee will
boost the exchange of electricity among its member countries
with a view to meeting their growing demands for electricity and
reducing power production cost.
Six countries of the Mekong sub-committee,
including China, Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Myanmar,
are capable of setting up a common power market and building
electricity transmission networks in the next 20 years,
according to a report by the World Bank in 1998.
REM will help reduce negative impacts, caused by
fuel use, to environment.--VNA
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