Cambodia raises electricity output for domestic consumption
The first phase of a 380 million USD HFO power plant in Kandal province’s Lvea Em district will begin operations in April and produce 100MW of electricity, said the Cambodian Ministry of Mines and Energy.
PhnomPenh (VNA) - The first phase of a 380 million USD HFO power plant inKandal province’s Lvea Em district will begin operations in April and produce100MW of electricity, said the Cambodian Ministry of Mines and Energy.
The ministry’sspokesman Victor Jona told The Phnom Penh Post on March 3 that an additional300MW will be produced during the second quarter or the early third quarter ofthis year.
With thisadditional energy, Cambodia will not suffer power shortages like last year, hesaid.
The powerplant will start operating as planned in April this year, while the full processcould start in June or July, he said.
“Thesituation of electricity supply from now onwards is good because we have 85 percentof water supply for hydropower while in the same period last year we only had30 percent,” he said.
Jona saidthe demand for electricity is growing at an average of 16-18 percent annually,except from 2018 to last year, which saw a 25 percent growth.
Currently,Cambodia can generate about 70-80 percent of total electricity consumption, thespokesman said.
Thedirector-general of Electricité du Cambodge (EdC), Keo Ratanak, said previouslythat Cambodia is working to generate more than 1,000MW of new energy by the endof this year.
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